Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and program

ABSTRACT

A plurality of user terminals or sensors transmit data encrypted by individual cryptographic key, a server receives the encrypted data items, and executes a data process according to a program defining a decryption process sequence. Bit slice expression data is generated by performing a bit slice process with respect to the plurality of encrypted data items which are decryption target, bit slice expression key based on the cryptographic key of each encrypted data item is generated, round key is generated based on a bit slice expression key, a decryption process including operation and movement processes of a block unit of the bit slice expression data, and an operation using the round key is executed, and a plurality of plain text data items corresponding to the plurality of encrypted data items are generated by a reverse conversion of the data with respect to the decryption process results.

TECHNICAL FIELD

The present disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus,an information processing method, and a program. More specifically, thepresent disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, aninformation processing method, and a program for realizing speed-up of acryptographic process of mass data.

BACKGROUND ART

With the development of the information society, importance of aninformation security technology for protecting information in securityhas been increased. Cryptography is one constituent element of theinformation security technology, and the cryptography is currently usedin various products and systems.

For example, communication is actively performed through a network suchas the Internet, and various devices such as a PC, a mobile phone, anRFID, and various sensors are connected to the network forcommunication. In such an environment, it is essential to use theinformation security technology for realizing a network society thatincreases convenience while protecting individual privacy, and thecryptography capable of increasing security and performing a process ata high speed is required.

A system of which a server collects, for example, informationtransmitted from a terminal owned by an individual or informationacquired through a sensor installed in a house, and which performsvarious data processes or analysis with respect to the informationcollected by the sensor has been used.

Specifically, there are, for example, a system which manages powerconsumption by disposing a sensor in a house or an office, a serviceused for health and safety management by disposing a sensor in a houseof an aged person living alone, a transportation system used for trafficcongestion detection and alleviation by a sensor disposed at a road orin a car, and the like.

In many cases, the data collected in such a system includes informationregarding individual privacy, and it is desirable to encrypt the data inorder to protect the privacy. However, hardware in which a cryptographicalgorithm of the related art is installed, is not a lightweightcryptographic algorithm designed for small hardware installation, has alarge module scale and is difficult to be mounted on a small-sizeddevice such as an RFID or a sensor, for example. In addition, it isdifficult to realize the device at low cost, power consumption is great,and a frequency of battery exchange increases, and therefore there aremany problems from the viewpoint of operability.

Meanwhile, there is an increasing requirement for lightweightcryptography suitable for hardware installation to a device with limitedhardware scale or resources of a memory, or a device in which energysaving is required.

Research and development of the lightweight cryptography is in progressin response to such needs, and recently, several new lightweight blockcryptographies which are excellent from a viewpoint of small hardwareinstallation are proposed. There are PRESENT, CLEFIA, KATAN, Piccolo,and the like, as representative examples.

With this, international standardization of the lightweight cryptographyhas progressed, and standardization of an international standard oflightweight cryptography ISO/IEC 29192 has progressed in a committeeISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 27 for performing international standardization of theinformation security technology, in a joint technical committee ofInternational Organization for Standardization (ISO) and InternationalElectrotechnical Commission (IEC).

Many examples of the lightweight block cryptogram which is one of thelightweight cryptography are optimal for small hardware installation.

That is, in order to realize a small size at the time of hardwareinstallation, many examples of the lightweight block cryptogram aredesigned with a structure in which a plurality of small S-boxes withfour bits and “light” round functions frequently used with a bitoperation are repeated.

This structure of the lightweight cryptogram cannot take advantage of ageneral-purpose processer which continues to be developed, and a problemof a low speed generally occurs in software installation in the PC orthe server.

As one example of a process of software installation in the PC or theserver, cloud computing using a device connected to the network may beused, but a cross-virtual machine (VM) side-channel attack may alsopresent a threat to the cloud [NPL 1]. The cloud may have a multi-tenantsystem in which a plurality of users share one server, and virtualmachines VM of the users are separated from each other, but a physicaldevice such as a memory or a cache is shared. The cross-VM side-channelattack is an attack where a cache is continuously attacked by a“malicious VM” which shares a set associative cache and a key isextracted by detecting an access by another VM by a delayed reaction ofthe cache. As described above, when performing the cryptographic processon the cloud in a state of the software installation, resistance withrespect to such a side-channel attack is also the object of thedisclosure.

CITATION LIST Non Patent Literature

-   NPL 1: Thomas Ristenpart, Eran Tromer, Hovav Shacham, Stefan Savage,    “Hey, You, Get Off of My Cloud: Exploring Information Leakage in    Third-Party Compute Clouds”, ACM CCS'09, Nov. 9-13, 2009 NPL 2: Eli    Biham, “A Fast New DES Implementation in Software”, FSE'97, 1997

SUMMARY OF INVENTION Technical Problem

The present disclosure is made in view of such circumstances, and anobject thereof is to provide an information processing apparatus, aninformation processing method, and a program for realizing speed-up of acryptographic process of mass data.

In addition, in one example of the present disclosure, in a case wherethe cryptographic process is executed using software (program) which canbe operated on a general-purpose processor, an object thereof is toprovide an information processing apparatus, an information processingmethod, and a program for performing a process at a high speed.

Solution to Problem

According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is providedan information processing apparatus including: a communication unitwhich receives encrypted data transmitted by a plurality of datatransmission devices; and a data processing unit which executes adecryption process of the plurality of encrypted data items receivedthrough the communication unit, in which the data processing unit has aconfiguration of executing a data process according to a programdefining a decryption process sequence, and the data processing unit,according to the program, executes a data conversion process ofgenerating bit slice expression data by performing a bit slice processwith respect to the plurality of encrypted data items which aredecryption process targets, a key conversion process of generating a bitslice expression key by performing a bit slice process with respect toeach cryptographic key of the plurality of encrypted data items, a keyscheduling process of inputting the bit slice expression key to generatea round key for each round of the decryption process, a decryptionprocess in which the round key is applied with respect to the bit sliceexpression data, and a reverse data conversion process of generating aplurality of plain text data items corresponding to the plurality ofencrypted data items, by performing reverse conversion of the bit sliceprocess with respect to the result of the decryption process.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing apparatusof the present disclosure, the communication unit receives the encrypteddata and a device ID of a transmission device of the encrypted data, andthe data processing unit selectively acquires the cryptographic keycorresponding to each encrypted data item from a storage unit based onthe device ID, or extracts the cryptographic key corresponding to eachencrypted data item with a predetermined operation based on the deviceID, and generates the bit slice expression key by performing the bitslice process with respect to the cryptographic key in the keyconversion process.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing apparatusof the present disclosure, the data processing unit executes thedecryption process using an operation process and a movement process ofa bit slice expression data block unit configured with the same ordersof bits or bits at every n bits of each encrypted data item configuringthe bit slice expression data in the decryption process, and herein n isa power of 2.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing apparatusof the present disclosure, the data processing unit generates the roundkey by using an operation process and a movement process of a bit sliceexpression key block unit configured with the same orders of bits orbits at every n bits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit sliceexpression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of2.

In addition, according to a second aspect of the present disclosure,there is provided an information processing system including: atransmission terminal which generates and transmits encrypted data; anda server which receives the plurality of encrypted data itemstransmitted by the plurality of transmission terminals, in which theserver includes a data processing unit which executes a data processaccording to a program defining a decryption process sequence, and thedata processing unit, according to the program, executes a dataconversion process of generating bit slice expression data by performinga bit slice process with respect to the plurality of encrypted dataitems which are decryption process targets, a key conversion process ofgenerating a bit slice expression key by performing a bit slice processwith respect to each cryptographic key of the plurality of encrypteddata items, a key scheduling process of inputting the bit sliceexpression key to generate a round key for each round of the decryptionprocess, a decryption process in which the round key is applied withrespect to the bit slice expression data, and a reverse data conversionprocess of generating a plurality of plain text data items correspondingto the plurality of encrypted data items, by performing reverseconversion of the bit slice process with respect to the result of thedecryption process.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing system ofthe present disclosure, the plurality of transmission terminals transmitthe encrypted data and a device ID of a transmission device of theencrypted data, and the data processing unit of the server selectivelyacquires the cryptographic key corresponding to each encrypted data itemfrom a storage unit based on the device ID, or extracts thecryptographic key corresponding to each encrypted data item with apredetermined operation based on the device ID, and generates the bitslice expression key by performing the bit slice process with respect tothe cryptographic key in the key conversion process.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing system ofthe present disclosure, the data processing unit of the server executesthe decryption process using an operation process and a movement processof a bit slice expression data block unit configured with the sameorders of bits or bits at every n bits of each encrypted data itemconfiguring the bit slice expression data in the decryption process, andherein n is a power of 2.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing system ofthe present disclosure, the data processing unit of the server generatesthe round key by using an operation process and a movement process of abit slice expression key block unit configured with the same orders ofbits or bits at every n bits of each cryptographic key configuring thebit slice expression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n isa power of 2.

In addition, according to a third aspect of the present disclosure,there is provided an information processing apparatus including: acommunication unit which transmits encrypted data with respect to a datareception device; and a data processing unit which executes a generationprocess of the plurality of encrypted data items transmitted through thecommunication unit, in which the data processing unit has aconfiguration of executing a data process according to a programdefining a cryptographic process sequence, and the data processing unit,according to the program, executes a data conversion process ofgenerating bit slice expression data by performing a bit slice processwith respect to a plurality of plain text data items which areencryption process targets, a key conversion process of generating a bitslice expression key by performing a bit slice process with respect toeach cryptographic key of the plurality of plain text data items, a keyscheduling process of inputting the bit slice expression key to generatea round key for each round of the encryption process, a cryptographicprocess in which the round key is applied with respect to the bit sliceexpression data, and a reverse data conversion process of generating theplurality of encrypted data items corresponding to the plurality ofplain text data items, by performing reverse conversion of the bit sliceprocess with respect to the result of the cryptographic process.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing apparatusof the present disclosure, the data processing unit selectively acquiresthe cryptographic key corresponding to each plain text data from astorage unit based on a device ID of a transmission destination to whichthe encrypted data is transmitted, or extracts the cryptographic keycorresponding to each encrypted data item with a predetermined operationbased on the device ID, and generates the bit slice expression key byperforming the bit slice process with respect to the cryptographic keyin the key conversion process.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing apparatusof the present disclosure, the data processing unit executes theencryption process using an operation process and a movement process ofa bit slice expression data block unit configured with the same ordersof bits or bits at every n bits of each plain text data configuring thebit slice expression data in the cryptographic process, and herein n isa power of 2.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing apparatusof the present disclosure, the data processing unit generates the roundkey by using an operation process and a movement process of a bit sliceexpression key block unit configured with the same orders of bits orbits at every n bits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit sliceexpression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of2.

In addition, according to a fourth aspect of the present disclosure,there is provided an information processing system including: a serverwhich generates and transmits a plurality of encrypted data items; and aplurality of reception terminals which receive the encrypted datatransmitted by the server, in which the server includes a dataprocessing unit which executes a data process according to a programdefining a cryptographic process sequence, and the data processing unit,according to the program, executes a data conversion process ofgenerating bit slice expression data by performing a bit slice processwith respect to a plurality of plain text data items which arecryptographic process targets, a key conversion process of generating abit slice expression key by performing a bit slice process with respectto each cryptographic key of the plain text data, a key schedulingprocess of inputting the bit slice expression key to generate a roundkey for each round of the cryptographic process, a cryptographic processin which the round key is applied with respect to the bit sliceexpression data, and a reverse data conversion process of generating theplurality of encrypted data items corresponding to the plurality ofplain text data items, by performing reverse conversion of the bit sliceprocess with respect to the result of the cryptographic process.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing system ofthe present disclosure, the data processing unit of the serverselectively acquires the cryptographic key corresponding to each plaintext data from a storage unit based on a device ID of each receptionterminal, or extracts the cryptographic key corresponding to each plaintext data with a predetermined operation based on the device ID, andgenerates the bit slice expression key by performing the bit sliceprocess with respect to the cryptographic key in the key conversionprocess.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing system ofthe present disclosure, the data processing unit of the server executesthe encryption process using an operation process and a movement processof a bit slice expression data block unit configured with the sameorders of bits or bits at every n bits of each plain text dataconfiguring the bit slice expression data in the encryption process, andherein n is a power of 2.

In addition, in one embodiment of the information processing system ofthe present disclosure, the data processing unit of the server generatesthe round key by using an operation process and a movement process of abit slice expression key block unit configured with the same orders ofbits or bits at every n bits of each cryptographic key configuring thebit slice expression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n isa power of 2.

In addition, according to a fifth aspect of the present disclosure,there is provided an information processing method which is executed inan information processing apparatus, the method including: acommunication step of causing a communication unit to receive encrypteddata transmitted by a plurality of data transmission devices; and a dataprocessing step of causing a data processing unit to execute adecryption process of the plurality of encrypted data items receivedthrough the communication unit, in which the data processing step,according to the program, includes a data conversion process ofgenerating bit slice expression data by performing a bit slice processwith respect to the plurality of encrypted data items which aredecryption process targets, a key conversion process of generating a bitslice expression key by performing a bit slice process with respect toeach cryptographic key of the encrypted data, a key scheduling processof inputting the bit slice expression key to generate a round key foreach round of the decryption process, a decryption process in which theround key is applied with respect to the bit slice expression data, anda reverse data conversion process of generating a plurality of plaintext data items corresponding to the plurality of encrypted data items,by performing reverse conversion of the bit slice process with respectto the result of the decryption process.

In addition, according to a sixth aspect of the present disclosure,there is provided an information processing method which is executed inan information processing apparatus, the method including: a dataprocessing step of causing a data processing unit to execute ageneration process of a plurality of encrypted data items; and acommunication step of causing a communication unit to transmit each ofthe plurality of encrypted data items generated by the data processingunit to each of the plurality of data transmission devices, in which thedata processing step, according to a program defining a cryptographicprocess sequence, includes a data conversion process of generating bitslice expression data by performing a bit slice process with respect toa plurality of plain text data items which are encryption processtargets, a key conversion process of generating a bit slice expressionkey by performing a bit slice process with respect to each cryptographickey of the plurality of plain text data items, a key scheduling processof inputting the bit slice expression key to generate a round key foreach round of the encryption process, a cryptographic process in whichthe round key is applied with respect to the bit slice expression data,and a reverse data conversion process of generating the plurality ofencrypted data items corresponding to the plurality of plain text dataitems, by performing reverse conversion of the bit slice process withrespect to the result of the cryptographic process.

In addition, according to a seventh aspect of the present disclosure,there is provided a program which causes an information processingapparatus to execute an information process including: causing a dataprocessing unit to input encrypted data generated by a plurality oftransmitters with an individual cryptographic key; and causing the dataprocessing unit to execute a data conversion process of generating bitslice expression data by performing a bit slice process with respect tothe plurality of encrypted data items which are decryption processtargets, a key conversion process of generating a bit slice expressionkey by performing a bit slice process with respect to each cryptographickey of the plurality of encrypted data items, a key scheduling processof inputting the bit slice expression key to generate a round key foreach round of the decryption process, a decryption process in which theround key is applied with respect to the bit slice expression data, anda reverse data conversion process of generating a plurality of plaintext data items corresponding to the plurality of encrypted data items,by performing reverse conversion of the bit slice process with respectto the result of the decryption process.

In addition, according to an eighth aspect of the present disclosure,there is provided program which causes an information processingapparatus to execute an information process including: a data processingstep of causing a data processing unit to execute a generation processof a plurality of encrypted data items; and a communication step ofcausing a communication unit to transmit each of the plurality ofencrypted data items generated by the data processing unit to each ofthe plurality of data transmission devices, in which the data processingstep includes a data conversion process of generating bit sliceexpression data by performing a bit slice process with respect to aplurality of plain text data items which are encryption process targets,a key conversion process of generating a bit slice expression key byperforming a bit slice process with respect to each cryptographic key ofthe plurality of plain text data items, a key scheduling process ofinputting the bit slice expression key to generate a round key for eachround of the encryption process, a cryptographic process in which theround key is applied with respect to the bit slice expression data, anda reverse data conversion process of generating the plurality ofencrypted data items corresponding to the plurality of plain text dataitems, by performing reverse conversion of the bit slice process withrespect to the result of the cryptographic process.

Further, the program of the present disclosure is, for example, aprogram which is provided, for example, by a recording medium withrespect to an information processing apparatus or a computer systemwhich can execute various program codes. Such a program is executed by aprogram execution unit of the information processing apparatus or thecomputer system and therefore a process according to the program isexecuted.

Other objects, features, or advantages of the present disclosure will bemade clear with detailed description with reference to the followingexamples or accompanied drawings. In addition, the system in thisspecification is a logical set configuration of a plurality ofapparatuses, and is not limited to a system with the apparatuses havingrespective configurations in the same housing.

Advantageous Effects of Invention

According to one example of the present disclosure, speed-up of acryptographic process of a lightweight cryptogram with software(program) using a cloud computing process, for example, is realized.

In detail, a plurality of user terminals or sensors transmits the dataencrypted by the lightweight cryptographic algorithm with an individualcryptographic key, and a server receives the encrypted data and executesa data process according to a program defining a decryption processsequence. It is possible to generate the bit slice expression data byperforming the bit slice process with respect to the plurality ofencrypted data items which are decryption targets, to generate the bitslice expression key based on the cryptographic key of each encrypteddata item, to generate the round key based on the bit slice expressionkey, to execute the decryption process including operation and movementprocesses of the block unit of the bit slice expression data, and theoperation using the round key, and to generate the plurality of plaintext data items corresponding to the plurality of encrypted data itemsby the reverse conversion of the data with respect to the decryptionprocess results.

In addition, in the decryption process according to one example of thepresent disclosure, the process is performed by the operation ormovement process of the bit slice expression block unit stored in aregister, and it is possible to perform the processing of the mass dataat a high speed. In detail, in a case where a cryptographic algorithm[PRESENT (key length of 80 bits)] is executed in an Intel Core i7 870processor, a high speed of 11.06 cycles/byte is achieved, and in a casewhere a cryptographic algorithm [Piccolo (key length of 80 bits)] isexecuted, a high speed of 5.59 cycles/byte is achieved. Particularly thespeed of Piccolo exceeds 6.92 cycles/byte which is a speed record ofAdvanced Encryption Standard (AES) in the same platform (Intel Core i7920) which is known in the related art.

In addition, since S-box is calculated by a logic operation withoutreferring to a table in bit slice installation according to one exampleof the present disclosure, it is possible to increase durability withrespect to the side channel attack such as a cache attack or across-virtual machine attack. Further, regarding the speed-up of thecryptographic process in the software in the cloud computing process,the cryptographic process can be completed with the smaller number ofcycles, and this results in a decrease of power consumption of the cloudor a data center.

In addition, in the system according to one example of the presentdisclosure, it is not necessary to introduce dedicated hardware for thecryptographic process to the cloud or the data center, and thereforescalability is improved.

Further, it is possible to use the lightweight cryptogram in the cloudwhich was difficult to be used in the related art, and thus installationof the lightweight cryptogram in the sensor is promoted and it ispossible to realize a sensor network at low cost and low powerconsumption.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating one example of a system to which aprocess of the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating an operation example of a system towhich a process of the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 3 is a diagram illustrating one example of a process executed in aserver configuring a system shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 to which processof the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 4 is a diagram illustrating a sequence example of a processexecuted in a server configuring a system shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 towhich process of the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating a sequence example of a processexecuted in a server configuring a system shown in FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 towhich process of the present disclosure is applicable.

FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating a process sequence of a cryptographicprocess algorithm PRESENT.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a process sequence of a cryptographicprocess of the present disclosure.

FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating a generation process example of bitslice expression key data obtained by a key conversion process of keydata.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating a generation process example of bitslice expression data obtained by a conversion process of data.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing one example of register storage data of akey scheduling process.

FIG. 11 is a diagram showing one example of register storage data of akey scheduling process.

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a flowchart illustrating a sequence of akey scheduling process.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing a flowchart illustrating a specific processsequence of a round key generation updating process executed in a keyscheduling process.

FIG. 14 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 15 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 16 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 17 is a diagram illustrating a logical command example of anonlinear conversion process (Sbox) of a key scheduling process.

FIG. 18 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 19 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 20 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 21 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 22 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 23 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 24 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 25 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 26 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a key scheduling process.

FIG. 27 is a diagram showing a flowchart illustrating a sequence of akey scheduling process.

FIG. 28 is a diagram showing a flowchart illustrating a specificsequence of a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process(Sbox) executed in a key scheduling process.

FIG. 29 is a diagram showing a flowchart illustrating a specificsequence of a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process(Sbox) executed in a key scheduling process.

FIG. 30 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 31 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 32 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 33 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 34 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 35 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 36 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 37 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 38 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 39 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 40 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 41 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 42 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 43 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 44 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 45 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a pre-calculation process of a nonlinear conversion process (Sbox).

FIG. 46 is a diagram showing a flowchart illustrating a sequence of around key generation updating process.

FIG. 47 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 48 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 49 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 50 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 51 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 52 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 53 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 54 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 55 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 56 is a diagram showing register storage data and a process exampleof a round key generation updating process.

FIG. 57 is a diagram showing a flowchart illustrating a specificsequence of a cryptographic process.

FIG. 58 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration example forperforming a cryptographic process executed by a cryptographicprocessing unit.

FIG. 59 is a diagram illustrating register storage data at the time ofexecuting a cryptographic process and a data process example.

FIG. 60 is a diagram illustrating a data process example at the time ofexecuting a cryptographic process.

FIG. 61 is a diagram showing a flowchart illustrating a specificsequence of a linear conversion process executed in a cryptographicprocess.

FIG. 62 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 63 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 64 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 65 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 66 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 67 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 68 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 69 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 70 is a diagram illustrating register storage data and a processexample at the time of executing a linear conversion process executed ina cryptographic process.

FIG. 71 is a diagram showing an apparatus configuration example forexecuting a cryptographic process.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS

Hereinafter, an information processing apparatus, an informationprocessing method, and a program according to the present disclosurewill be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Thedescription will be performed according to the following order.

1. One Example of System to which Configuration of Present Disclosure isApplicable

2. Lightweight Block Cryptographic Algorithm “PRESENT”

3. Configuration of Information Processing Apparatus (Cryptographicprocessing Apparatus) and Outline of Process Sequence

4. Key Conversion Process and Data Conversion Process 5. Key SchedulingProcess (Key Scheduling Process Example 1)

6. Key Scheduling Process (Key Scheduling Process Example 2)

-   -   6-1. Pre-Calculation Process of Nonlinear Conversion (Sbox)    -   6-2. Generation and Updating Process of Round Key

7. Cryptographic process

8. Configuration Example of Information Processing Apparatus andCryptographic Processing Apparatus

9. Summary of Configurations of Present Disclosure

1. ONE EXAMPLE OF SYSTEM TO WHICH CONFIGURATION OF PRESENT DISCLOSURE ISAPPLICABLE

For example, a configuration of collecting information fromcommunication terminals such as mobile phones or smart phones owned byindividuals, RFIDs installed in various products, or sensors disposed inhouses, to perform a process in a server is assumed.

Small-sized hardware for executing a cryptographic process algorithm canbe installed in a plurality of apparatuses on an informationtransmission side, to rapidly generate and transmit encrypted data.

However, it is necessary for a server to receive mass encrypted datatransmitted by a plurality of terminals or sensors and perform adecryption process. In addition, a case in which a server has togenerate a plurality of encrypted data items to be transmitted to theplurality of terminals, is also assumed.

It is expected that necessity of collection, analysis, and usage of bigdata having massive quantities and covering a wide range, graduallyincreases in the future.

It is considered that usage of cloud computing is effective in a processof such massive data. For example, by using cloud computing in analysisof mass encrypted data collected from the plurality of terminals orsensors, software operable in a general-purpose processor of a server ona network is used to perform a cryptographic process (including bothencryption and decryption processes).

The most important point is to install the hardware in the RFID or thesensor at low cost and low power consumption and the best option is toperform the encryption process with a lightweight cryptogram, but asdescribed above, the process of the lightweight cryptogram is slowlyperformed in general software installation to be operated in ageneral-purpose processor of a server on the cloud.

Cloud computing is advantageous when performing a process using aplurality of information processing apparatuses connected to thenetwork, but it is disadvantageous from a viewpoint of cost, when aimingto speed-up the process by installing hardware for executing a specificcryptographic process algorithm on all apparatuses connected to thenetwork.

In a case of collecting mass encrypted data to upload the data to aserver having a cloud configuration, and performing analysis thereofwith the cloud, it is desirable to perform a scale-out method of usingsoftware (program) executable on a plurality of inexpensive servers toperform a process.

As described above, for example, in a case of performing thecryptographic process using a technology of cloud computing or the like,it is necessary to perform the cryptographic process (encryption processand decryption process) using the software (program). However, asdescribed above, there is a problem of a decrease in a process speed ofthe cryptographic process according to the software in the lightweightcryptography, and a method of realizing an increase in the process speedis required.

There are various cryptographic algorithms, and there is an algorithmcalled a block cryptogram as one example of a basic technology. In thegeneral software installation of the block cryptogram, Sbox forperforming a nonlinear conversion process is mounted with tablereference, and accordingly there is a threat of a cache attack. Thecache attack is one of side-channel attacks, and is a timing attack forextracting a cryptographic key using a difference in memory access timedue to presence or absence of a cache hit.

The configurations of the present disclosure are to solve such problems,for example. An example of a system to which the configurations of thepresent disclosure are applicable will be described with reference toFIG. 1 and the subsequent drawings.

As the system to which the configurations of the present disclosure areapplicable, there is a network system shown in FIG. 1, for example.

FIG. 1 shows a sensor network 20 in which a plurality of terminal nodesare connected to each other, and a cloud 10 which is configured with anetwork connection server group for collecting transmission data of theterminal nodes to perform a data process.

The terminal nodes include, for example, a portable terminal such as aPC, a mobile phone, a smart phone, or a tablet terminal owned by a user,a power consumption detection sensor disposed in a house or an office, asensor or a health care device which is disposed in a house of an agedperson living alone to collect safety and health management information,a terminal or a sensor provided on a road or in a car to be used fortraffic congestion detection and alleviation, or various other devices.

In addition, hereinafter, various devices configuring the terminal nodeswill be collectively described as a sensor. The sensor includes variousdevices described above.

The sensor configuring the terminal node transmits various informationitems to the cloud 10 configured with the network connection servergroup for performing the data process.

In addition, in many cases, the transmission data is provided to thenetwork connection server configuring the cloud 10 through relay nodesor the like, for example.

The data collected by such a system includes, for example, individual'sprivate or confidential information in many cases, and the data isencrypted and transmitted in order to prevent data leakage.

The sensor executes encryption of the transmission data and transmitsthe encrypted data. Dedicated hardware for executing a lightweightcryptographic algorithm, for example, is installed in the sensor, andthe sensor performs the encryption using this. As a cryptographic keyfor this encryption, an individual cryptographic key retained by eachsensor in a memory, or a key which can be extracted from a sensor IDwith a predetermined operation, for example, is used.

The number of sensors is huge, and as shown in FIG. 2, each sensorapplies a sensor ID to the encrypted data and transmits the encrypteddata to the cloud.

In an example shown in FIG. 2, terminal nodes A, B, and C are shown asrepresentative examples of data transmission nodes. Each node executesthe encryption of the transmission data using the cryptographic keywhich is a unique node key to generate a block (for example, 64 bits)configured with the encrypted data, applies a sensor ID which is anidentifier of each sensor (terminal node) to the generated encrypteddata, and transmits the encrypted data.

Mass encrypted data is transmitted also from the plurality of sensorsother than the sensors A to C shown as the representative examples, tothe server on the cloud, for example, a server S 30 shown in FIG. 2.

In addition, in examples which will be described later, a data length ofthe encrypted data generated by each sensor is described as one block ofa block length of a lightweight block cryptographic algorithm used forthe encryption process. One block is, for example, data having uniquebits such as 64 bits. Each sensor generates an encrypted block having 64bits by performing the encryption process using the unique sensor key(for example, 80 bits) and transmits the encrypted block.

The data of the encrypted data generated by each sensor is not limitedto one block, and may be the plurality of blocks. Each sensor transmitsdata with clear relationship between each encrypted data item and thesensor ID. In addition, in a case where data order information of eachblock is necessary, for example, serial numbers or time stamps showingthe data order are included in the data, and those are applied to thedata as block attribute information and transmitted.

Further, in a case where the sensor network is, for example, managed asa tree structure, the transmission data from the sensor which is theterminal node is transmitted to the relay node from the sensor (terminalnode), and then to a root node which is set as a host node of the relaynode, and is transmitted to the server on the cloud from the root node.

(Outline of Process in Server on Cloud)

Next, an outline of a process executed by the server on the cloud whichcollects the transmission data of the sensor (terminal node) to performthe process, in the network system described with reference to FIG. 1and FIG. 2, will be described.

The server on the cloud collects the plurality of encrypted data blockstransmitted from the plurality of sensors (terminal nodes) and executesthe cryptographic process using software (program) which can be operatedon a general-purpose processor. For example, the server executes aprocess of decrypting the plurality of encrypted data. Alternatively,the sensor performs a generation process or the like of the plurality ofencrypted data to be transmitted to each terminal node.

The server executes a bit slice cryptographic process, as thecryptographic process (including encryption and decryption processes)using the software (program).

In addition, in the following description, the “cryptographic process”includes both the encryption process and the decryption process of thedata.

The bit slice cryptographic process (including encryption and decryptionprocesses) is a process proposed by Biham in 1997, and this shows that acryptographic algorithm of a certain class is more rapidly installed bybit slice installation, than the software installation of the relatedart.

The bit slice cryptographic process is, for example, specificallydisclosed in NPL 2 “Eli Biham, “A Fast New DES Implementation inSoftware”, FSE'97, 1997”. In the most basic bit slice installation, theprocess is performed by cutting out data from heads of the plurality ofdata blocks which are cryptographic process targets, in a bit unit, andsetting a new block configured with an assembly of data items (bit sliceexpression data block) having the same orders of bits or bits at every nbits which are cut out from each data block, and herein n is a power of2 such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 64, 128, or the like.

For example, a bit slice decryption process example in a case ofcollectively decrypting each encrypted data item transmitted by eachsensor will be described with reference to FIG. 3.

FIG. 3 shows diagrams illustrating (A) retention data and (B) acryptographic process sequence (decryption) of the server S 30 shown inFIG. 2.

A cryptographic key 31 in the retention data of the server shown in FIG.3(A) is data previously retained in the server S 30, as a unique key ofeach sensor (terminal node).

Each data of a sensor ID 32 and encrypted data 33 is data received fromeach sensor through the network.

The cryptographic key applied to the encryption process of eachencrypted data item can be selected based on the sensor ID.

FIG. 3(B) is a diagram illustrating a process executed in acryptographic processing unit 50 of the server S 30. In addition, thecryptographic processing unit 50 shown in the drawing is a dataprocessing unit configured with a CPU or the like having a programexecution function, and executes the cryptographic process (encryptionand decryption processes) by performing a data process according to aprogram defining a sequence of a predetermined cryptographic algorithm.That is, the cryptographic processing unit executes the cryptographicprocess using the software (program).

FIG. 3(B) shows a process example of a case of performing the decryptionprocess of the encrypted data received from each sensor through thenetwork.

The server, first selects each cryptographic key 31 used for thedecryption, using the sensor ID 32 added to the encrypted data 33. Theserver on the cloud retains the cryptographic key used in each server asmanagement data associated with the sensor ID. Alternatively, the uniquecryptographic key of each sensor may be extracted from each sensor IDwith a predetermined operation.

In the server, as shown in FIG. 3(B), the cryptographic keys 31 of eachsensor are arranged in the order corresponding to each block of theencrypted data 33 generated by each sensor.

When the encrypted data 33 and the cryptographic keys 31 having thepredetermined block number which is previously defined as a processingunit of the bit slice cryptographic process are assembled, a datadecryption process according to the bit slice cryptographic process isperformed.

As described above, in the bit slice cryptographic process, the processis performed by cutting out data from heads of each block which is thecryptographic process target, in a bit unit, and setting an assembly ofdata items (bit slice expression data block) having the same orders ofbits or bits at every n bits of each block, and herein n is a power of 2such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 64, 128, or the like.

First, the server generates the plurality of bit slice expression datablocks such as a block in which only data items of the order of 1 bitare assembled (bit slice expression data block), a block in which onlydata items of the order of 2 bit are assembled (bit slice expressiondata block), and blocks in which only data at the same bit position tothe subsequent final bit (bit slice expression data block), from aplurality of encrypted data blocks configuring the encrypted data 33received from the plurality of sensors.

By doing so, the server generates the plurality of bit slice expressiondata blocks from the plurality of encrypted data blocks configuring theencrypted data 33.

In addition, the same process is performed also for the cryptographickey 31 used for generation of the encrypted data 33, that is to say, aplurality of bit slice expression key blocks corresponding to aplurality of key data items are generated.

Further, each of the cryptographic key 31 is a cryptographic key blockconfigured with key data of 80 bits, for example, and regarding thecryptographic key 31, an assembly of data (bit slice expression keyblock) having the same orders of bits or bits at every n bits of eachcryptographic key block, is set, and herein n is a power of 2 such as 2,4, 8, 16, 64, 128, or the like.

This block conversion process is a process executed as a key conversionprocess (Key Conversion) in Step S11 and a data conversion process (DataConversion) in Step S21 shown in the cryptographic processing unit 50shown in FIG. 3(B).

The process using the bit slice expression block generated by the bitslice process as a processing unit is executed, and the processaccording to the predetermined cryptographic algorithm is executed.

In the apparatus of the present disclosure, an operation (AND, OR, XOR,or the like) using the bit slice expression block as a processing unit,a shifting process of register storage data, or a transposition processof a bit position such as shuffling, is executed as an applicationprocess of the software (program) to perform the process according tothe predetermined cryptographic algorithm.

A round key is generated by performing a key scheduling process (KeyScheduling) in Step S12, with respect to the bit slice key data based onthe plurality of cryptographic keys 31 generated by the key conversionprocess (Key Conversion) in Step S11 in the cryptographic processingunit 50.

Meanwhile, in the data conversion process (Data Conversion) in Step S21,a bit slice encrypted data block is generated by the bit slice processwith respect to the plurality of encrypted data items 33 received fromthe sensor. This bit slice block is set as a processing target of thecryptographic process (encryption process or decryption process) in acryptographic process (Data Processing) step in subsequent Step S22.

In the cryptographic process (Data Processing) in Step S22, thecryptographic process using the round key, herein the decryption processof the encrypted data is executed with respect to the bit sliceexpression data block generated based on the encrypted data in the dataconversion process (Data Conversion) in Step S21.

In this cryptographic process step, for example, the process accordingto the predetermined cryptographic algorithm such as an addition (XOR)process with the round key, a linear conversion process, or a nonlinearconversion process, is executed according to the software (program).

In addition, in a key scheduling process (Key Scheduling) in Step S12, around key used in each round of this round operation is generated.

In subsequent Step S23, a reverse data conversion process (DataConversion⁻¹) is executed with respect to a block group obtained as aresult of the cryptographic process (Data Processing) in Step S22. Withthis process, a process of returning the bit-sliced block to theoriginal block is performed. With this process, plain text data 70corresponding to the encrypted data 33 transmitted from the sensor isgenerated.

FIG. 4 and FIG. 5 show two sequence examples of the process executed inthe server.

A flowchart shown in FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a sequence of acase of performing a step of preparing a decryption key of each blockbased on the sensor ID added to the encrypted data after assembling theencrypted data items having the predetermined number of blocks.

The flowchart shown in FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating a sequence ofa case of performing a step of preparing a decryption key of each blockbased on the sensor ID added to the encrypted data each time when eachcryptographic text data block arrives.

First, a process of each step of the flow shown in FIG. 4 will bedescribed.

First, in Step S31, the encrypted data block transmitted from the nodeis received. This is combined data of the sensor ID 32 and the encrypteddata 33 shown in FIG. 3(A).

Next, in Step S32, it is determined whether or not the encrypted datahaving the predetermined block number previously defined as a processingunit is received. In a case where the number thereof does not reach thepredetermined block number, the process returns to Step S31 and thereception process is continued.

In a case where the number thereof has reached the predetermined blocknumber, the process proceeds to Step S33, and the cryptographic key(=decryption key) of each encrypted data item is selected using thesensor ID added to the encrypted data.

Finally, in Step S34, a corresponding set of the encrypted data and thecryptographic key is input to the cryptographic processing unit 50 toexecute the decryption process according to the bit slice cryptographicprocess.

The flow shown in FIG. 5 is a sequence of executing a process each timeof arrival of the cryptographic text data block.

First, in Step S41, the encrypted data block transmitted from the nodeis received. This is combined data of the sensor ID 32 and the encrypteddata 33 shown in FIG. 3(A).

Next, in Step S42, the cryptographic key (=decryption key) of eachencrypted data item is selected using the sensor ID added to theencrypted data.

Next, in Step S43, it is determined whether or not the encrypted datahaving the predetermined block number previously defined as a processingunit is received. In a case where the number thereof does not reach thepredetermined block number, the process returns to Step S41 and thereception process is continued.

In a case where the number thereof has reached the predetermined blocknumber, the process proceeds to Step S44, and a corresponding set of theencrypted data and the cryptographic key is input to the cryptographicprocessing unit 50 to execute the decryption process according to thebit slice cryptographic process.

In addition, in the process example described above, the example ofreceiving the plurality of encrypted data items from the sensor andperforming the decryption process in the server has been described, butfor example, in a case of generating the encrypted data to betransmitted to the plurality of user terminals or the like, the servergenerates the plurality of encrypted data items by applying the bitslice cryptographic process with respect to the plurality of plain textdata items. This encryption process is also executed by using theconfiguration of the cryptographic processing unit 50 shown in FIG. 3.

In a case of performing the encryption process, the plurality of blocksformed of the plain text data and the cryptographic key corresponding toeach plain text data are input to execute the process, and the pluralityof encrypted data items are generated.

For example, the cryptographic key corresponding to each plain text dataitem is selectively acquired from a storage unit based on a device ID ofa transmission destination to which the encrypted data is transmitted,and a bit slice expression key is generated by the bit slice processwith respect to the cryptographic key selectively acquired from thestorage unit.

In addition, the encryption process is executed according to the processsequence shown in the cryptographic processing unit 50 shown in FIG.3(B) by using the bit slice expression data block based on the plaintext data and the bit slice expression key block based on thecryptographic key, and the encrypted data is generated and output.

The bit slice cryptographic process executed by the cryptographicprocessing unit 50 is executed as a process using the software (program)operable on a general-purpose processor, as described above. That is, ina device such as a PC which does not have a dedicated hardwareconfiguration for a specific cryptographic algorithm, the process isperformed by executing the software (program) defining an executionsequence of the cryptographic process algorithm which will be describedlater.

The process executed according to the software (program) includes, forexample, an operation (AND, OR, XOR, or the like) between block dataitems using the bit slice expression block data stored in the register,a shifting process of the data stored in the register, a movement andtransposition process of the bit position such as shuffling, or thelike.

In a case of performing the cryptographic process according to thesoftware (program) by a processor including a 64-bit register, forexample, the cryptographic process can be executed as a singleinstruction multiple data stream (SIMD) type parallel process ofprocessing 64 blocks in parallel with each other. In a basic bit sliceinstallation method, the parallel process can be performed for a bitwidth of the processor. Transposition of the bit position frequentlyused in the cryptographic algorithm can be realized by a renamingprocess of the register at zero cost and therefore speed-up of theprocess is realized.

In addition, the number of blocks which can be subjected to the parallelprocess in the bit slice cryptographic process varies depending on thecryptographic algorithm or the bit slice installation algorithm,processor architecture, or a size of the register used, and for example,8, 16, 32, 64, 128, or the like can be set as the number parallelprocess block.

In addition, in the bit slice cryptographic process, since thecryptographic text block subjected to the parallel process isindependent from each other, the block received from the plurality ofsensors may be mixed or the blocks may be arranged in any orderregardless of the received order, as long as the block is associatedwith the key data block. A function of performing the decryption processregardless of the order of encrypted sensing data received from theplurality of sensors in asynchronous manner, is also an advantage ofthis system which uses the bit slice cryptographic process.

In this bit slice type cryptographic process, there is a nonlinearconversion process (Sbox) as one element which is a major influencingfactor to the process speed. It is important point to express thisnonlinear conversion process with a small logical operation (command) torealize the speed-up of the process.

In addition, since the processor in recent years simultaneously issuesthe plurality of commands, the speed-up of the process can be realized,if a restriction of dependency of the register is reduced and thecommand is expressed by a command system which can be executed with thesmall cycle number as possible.

2. LIGHTWEIGHT BLOCK CRYPTOGRAPHIC ALGORITHM “PRESENT”

Next, a Lightweight Block Cryptographic Algorithm “PRESENT” which is oneexample of the cryptographic process algorithm executed in the presentdisclosure will be described.

In the apparatus of the present disclosure, as the cryptographic processusing the bit slice, for example, “PRESENT” which is a lightweight blockcryptographic algorithm corresponding to a block size of 64 bits, andkey lengths of 80 bits and 128 bits, is executed.

An outline of a cryptographic process sequence according to thelightweight block cryptographic algorithm “PRESENT” will be describedwith reference to FIG. 6.

As shown in FIG. 6, in the lightweight block cryptographic algorithm“PRESENT”, a plain text block having 64 bits and a cryptographic keyhaving 80 bits, for example, are input.

First, a round key having 64 bits is generated based on thecryptographic key having 80 bits and the following process is performed.

(Step S71) An addition process (exclusive-OR operation: XOR) of theplain text block having 64 bits and the round key having 64 bits isexecuted.

(Step S72) In addition, a nonlinear conversion process (SboxLayer) withrespect to the added result is executed.

(Step S73) Further, a linear conversion process (pLayer) is performedwith respect to the nonlinear conversion result.

The processes in Steps S71 to S73, that is, the addition process withthe round key, the nonlinear conversion process, and the linearconversion process are set as a round operation of 1 unit, and thisround operation is repeatedly executed. For example, 31 rounds arerepeatedly executed, and after the final round, the operation with theround key is executed again to generate and output the cryptographictext.

In addition, an updating process (Update) based on the input key data issequentially executed, and a generation process of the round key (64bits) used in each round is performed.

The information processing apparatus of the present disclosure, forexample, executes the cryptographic process according to the lightweightblock cryptographic algorithm “PRESENT” shown in FIG. 6, according tothe software (program), by using the bit slice expression data blockgenerated by the bit slice process as a processing unit. In detail, thecryptographic process according to the software (program) defining theprocess such as the inter-block operation (AND, OR, XOR, or the like),the shifting process of the register storage data, or the transpositionprocess of the bit position, is realized.

3. CONFIGURATION OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS (CRYPTOGRAPHICPROCESSING APPARATUS) AND OUTLINE OF PROCESS SEQUENCE

A configuration of the information processing apparatus (cryptographicprocessing apparatus) for executing the cryptographic process accordingto “PRESENT” of the present disclosure and a Process Sequence will bedescribed with reference to FIG. 7.

FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating a configuration and a process of aninformation processing apparatus 100.

The information processing apparatus 100 can be configured with a PC orthe like, for example, and can be configured as an apparatus which doesnot include dedicated hardware for executing the cryptographic processaccording to a specific algorithm as an essential configuration.

The information processing apparatus stores the software (program) forexecuting the cryptographic process in a memory and executes the processaccording to the program to perform the cryptographic process.

A cryptographic processing unit 110 of the information processingapparatus 100 shown in FIG. 7 is configured with, for example, a dataprocessing unit configured with a CPU or the like having a programexecution function, and a memory (RAM, ROM, a register, or the like)which stores data, various parameters, and programs, and the dataprocessing unit (CPU or the like) executes processes in Steps S111 toS112 and Steps S121 to S123 shown in the drawing, according to theprogram, to perform the cryptographic process.

In addition, hereinafter, an encryption process example of inputtingplain text data 82 and a cryptographic key 81 as input data 80, andgenerating and outputting encrypted data 91 as output data 90 will bedescribed.

Further, as described above, the cryptographic processing unit 110performs the cryptographic process according to the processes in StepsS111 and S112 and Steps S121 to S123 shown in the drawing, both in anencryption process of encrypting the plain text data to generate theencrypted data and in a decryption process of decrypting the encrypteddata to generate the plain text data.

Hereinafter, an example of a case of performing the encryption processwill be described as a representative example of the encryption processand the decryption process.

The input data 80 is the plurality of cryptographic keys 81 and theplurality of plain text data items 82.

The cryptographic keys and the plain text data items are associated in aone-to-one manner. That is, plain text data a encrypted by acryptographic key a, plain text data b encrypted by a cryptographic keyb, plain text data c encrypted by a cryptographic key c, . . . , andplain text data N encrypted by a cryptographic key N. The cryptographicprocessing unit 110 inputs N cryptographic keys and plain text dataitems as a processing unit, and executes the cryptographic process.

In addition, each of the plain text data items a, b, and c is configuredwith a data block (for example, 64 bits) having a predetermined datalength.

In the same manner as described above, each of the cryptographic keys a,b, and c is also configured with a key data block (for example, 80 bits)having a predetermined data length.

In addition, the bit size is one example, and various bit sizes can beset for the data or the key.

The encrypted data 91 generated as the output data 90 is the followingdata, such as

Encrypted data a encrypted by the cryptographic key a, encrypted data bencrypted by the cryptographic key b, encrypted data c encrypted by thecryptographic key c, . . . , and encrypted data N encrypted by thecryptographic key N. The cryptographic processing unit 110 generates andoutputs N encrypted data items.

For example, N encrypted data items are individually transmitted to Nsensors (terminal nodes) through the network shown in FIG. 1 or FIG. 2,and the decryption process is executed in each sensor. In addition, thekey used for the encryption and the key used for he decryption processcan be set in the same manner, and the cryptographic key shown in FIG. 7as the input data is configured as a unique sensor key retained in eachsensor, for example.

Processes executed by the cryptographic processing unit 110 shown inFIG. 7 are the following processes, such as Step S111: the keyconversion process, Step S112: the key scheduling process, Step S121:the data conversion process, Step S122: the cryptographic process, andStep S123: the reverse data conversion process.

The cryptographic processing unit 110 realizes the cryptographic processaccording to the lightweight block cryptographic algorithm “PRESENT”using the bit slice cryptographic process, by executing the stepsdescribed above.

First, the outline of each process and the flow of all processes will bebriefly described, and then each process will be described in detail.

The key conversion process in Step S111 is a process of generating bitslice expression key data configured with the bit slice expression blockwhich is an assembly of the data having the same orders of bits or bitsat every n bits of the cryptographic keys 81, that is, the plurality ofcryptographic key blocks formed of key data having 80 bits, for example,and herein n is a power of 2 such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 64, 128, or the like.

The data conversion process in Step S121 is a process of generating bitslice expression plain text data configured with the bit sliceexpression block which is an assembly of the data having the same ordersof bits or bits at every n bits of the plain text data items 82, thatis, the plurality of data blocks formed of plain text data having 64bits, for example, and herein n is a power of 2 such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 64,128, or the like.

The key scheduling process (Key Scheduling) in Step S112 is a process ofgenerating the plurality of round keys to be used in the cryptographicprocess, by using the bit slice expression key data generated in the keyconversion process (Key Conversion) in Step S111.

The cryptographic process (Data Processing) in Step S122 is a step ofexecuting the cryptographic process using the round key, with respect tothe bit slice expression data generated based on the plain text data inthe data conversion process (Data Conversion) in Step S111.

The process according to the cryptographic algorithm such as theaddition (XOR) process with the round key, the linear conversionprocess, or the nonlinear conversion process using the block configuringthe bit slice expression data generated by the bit slice process as aunit, is executed according to the software (program).

In subsequent Step S123, the reverse data conversion process (DataConversion⁻¹) is executed with respect to the result of thecryptographic process (Data Processing) in Step S122. This process is aprocess of returning the bit slice expression data to the assembly ofencrypted data corresponding to the plain text data 82 before the bitslice process. With this process, the encrypted data 91 corresponding tothe plain text data 82 is generated as the output data 90.

Hereinafter, the process in each step will be described in detail, inorder.

4. KEY CONVERSION PROCESS AND DATA CONVERSION PROCESS

First, the following processes of the cryptographic processing unit 110shown in FIG. 7, that is, Step S111: the key conversion process and StepS121: the data conversion process will be described.

First, the key conversion process in Step S111 will be described withreference to FIG. 8.

The key conversion process in Step S111 is a process of generating thebit slice expression key block which is the assembly of data having thesame orders of bits or bits at every n bits of the cryptographic keys 81shown in FIG. 7 as the input data, that is, the plurality ofcryptographic key blocks formed of the key data having 80 bits, forexample, and herein n is a power of 2 such as 2, 4, 8, 16, 64, 128, orthe like.

FIG. 8 shows eight key data items (a1) to (a8) each having 80 bits, asthe cryptographic keys 81 which are the input data.

In Step S111, the bit slice expression key block is generated from theeight key data items (a1) to (a8) each having 80 bits, and is stored inregisters (XMM registers (r0 and the like) or general-purpose registers(g0 and the like)) configuring a memory in the information processingapparatus.

(b1) to (b8) shown in FIG. 8 are register storage data items which arethe processed result of the key conversion process in Step S111, thatis, storage data items of the bit slice expression key block. Herein,eight 128-bit registers are used as storage areas of the bit sliceexpression key block.

The cryptographic processing unit 110, for example, stores 8-bit data[0,0] in which only first bits of eight 80-bit key data items (a1) to(a8) which are input data item shown in FIG. 8 are collected, in the XMMregister r0, as shown in (b1) of FIG. 8.

The 8-bit data [0,0] is an assembly formed of only first bits of eight80-bit key data, and is one bit slice expression block.

Next, 8-bit data [1,0] in which only second bits of input data items(a1) to (a8) are collected, is stored in an XMM register r1, as shown in(b2) of FIG. 8.

Next, 8-bit data [2,0] in which only third bits of input data items (a1)to (a8) are collected, is stored in an XMM register r2, as shown in (b3)of FIG. 8.

Next, 8-bit data [3,0] in which only fourth bits of input data items(a1) to (a8) are collected, is stored in an XMM register r3, as shown in(b4) of FIG. 8.

Next, 8-bit data [0,1] in which only fifth bits of input data items (a1)to (a8) are collected, is stored in the XMM register r0, as shown in(b1) of FIG. 8.

As described above, the data is stored in the unit of eight bits in theXMM registers r0 to r3, in the unit of four bits, and the data of first64 bits of the input data items (a1) to (a8) (8×64=512 bits) are storedin four XMM registers r0 to r3.

In addition, the data of 65^(th) bit and subsequent bits of the inputdata items (a1) to (a8) is stored in the unit of eight bits by using thegeneral-purpose registers (g0 to g3) or the XMM registers (r4 to r7) inorder.

8-bit data [0,16] in which only 65^(th) bits of input data items (a1) to(a8) are collected, is stored in the XMM register r4 (or general-purposeregister g0), as shown in (b5) of FIG. 8.

Next, 8-bit data [1,16] in which only 66^(th) bits of input data items(a1) to (a8) are collected, is stored in the XMM register r5 (orgeneral-purpose register g1), as shown in (b6) of FIG. 8.

Next, 8-bit data [1,16] in which only 67^(th) bits of input data items(a1) to (a8) are collected, is stored in the XMM register r6 (orgeneral-purpose register g2), as shown in (b7) of FIG. 8.

Next, 8-bit data [1,16] in which only 68^(th) bits of input data items(a1) to (a8) are collected, is stored in the XMM register r7 (orgeneral-purpose register g3), as shown in (b8) of FIG. 8.

As described above, the cryptographic processing unit 110 performs thebit slice process eight 80-bit keys and stores the keys in the pluralityof registers. In detail, for example, in a case where the informationprocessing apparatus 100 has a configuration of including eight XMMregisters (r0 to r7) which are registers for Intel extension SIMDcommand, or four XMM registers (r0 to r3) and four general-purposeregisters (g0 to g3), the bi slice data is dispersed and stored in theunit of eight bits by using the registers.

Each register storage data of each example shown in FIG. 8 is asfollows.

First, fifth, ninth, . . . , and 61^(st) bits of eight 80-bit key datablocks (a1) to (a8) which are input data are stored in the XMM registerr0, second, sixth, tenth, . . . , and 62^(nd) bits thereof are stored inthe XMM register r1, third, seventh, eleventh, . . . , and 63^(rd) bitsthereof are stored in the XMM register r2, and fourth, eighth, twelfth,. . . , and 64^(th) bits thereof are stored in the XMM register r3.

In addition, 65^(th), 69^(th), 73^(rd), and 77^(th) bits of eight 80-bitkey data blocks (a1) to (a8) which are input data are stored in the XMMregister r4 (or general-purpose register g0), 66^(th), 70^(th), 74^(th),and 78^(th) bits thereof are stored in the XMM register r5 (orgeneral-purpose register g1), 67^(th), 71^(st), 75^(th), and 79^(th)bits thereof are stored in the XMM register r6 (or general-purposeregister g2), and 68^(th), 72^(nd), 76^(th), and 80^(th) bits thereofare stored in the XMM register r7 (or general-purpose register g3).

As described above, 64 bits of the input data are repeatedly stored infour registers using the registers, in the unit of four bits. The65^(th) bit and subsequent bits are also stored in the other fourregisters using the registers, in the unit of four bits.

In addition, any register storage data [i,j] shown in FIG. 8 is the bitslice expression block as the assembly of the same order of bits ofeight key data items (a1) to (a8), and is 8-bit data.

Further, in [i,j] shown as an identifier of the register storage data, iis a parameter which is repeatedly set as 0, 1, 2, and 3 in the unit offour bits from the head of each input data of eight 80-bit key datablocks (a1) to (a8), and shows a variable indicating which bit is storedamong the unit of four bits.

j corresponds to a parameter indicating the order of the data of theunits of four bits, from the data of the unit of four bits of eight keydata items (a1) to (a8).

For example, in a case where the data is divided from the head of eachinput data in the unit of four bits, since is set as 0 in the first bitin the data of the unit of four bits, i is set as 1 in the second bit inthe data of the unit of four bits, i is set as 2 in the third bit in thedata of the unit of four bits, and i is set as 3 in the fourth bit inthe data of the unit of four bits, i=2 when [i,j]=[2,1], indicates thethird bit of the data of the unit of four bits.

In addition, j=1 when [i,j]=[2,1], is a parameter indicating the orderof the data of the unit of four bits, from the data of the unit of fourbits from the head of each input data.

j is set as 0 in the first data of the unit of four bits, j is set as 1in the second data of the unit of four bits, and j is set as 2 in thethird data of the unit of four bits.

When [i,j]=[2,1], j is 1, and therefore it is identified that the datais the second data of the unit of four bits.

As described above, in [2,1], for example, j is 1 and therefore it isidentified that the data is the second data of the unit of four bits,and i is 2 and therefore it is identified that the data is the thirddata in the second data of the unit of four bits.

That is, it is identified that the block is configured with the assemblyof data items of seventh bits from the head.

As described above, in the key conversion process in Step S111, thecryptographic processing unit 110 shown in FIG. 7 generates the bitslice expression key data formed of the bit slice expression blocks[0,0] to [3,19] and stores the bit slice expression key data in theregister.

Next, the data conversion process in Step S121 will be described withreference to FIG. 9.

This data conversion process is the same conversion process of the datainto the bit slice expression data as the key conversion processdescribed with reference to FIG. 8. However, it is different therefromon a point that the input is eight 64-bit plain text data items.

Each register storage data in the example shown in FIG. 9 is as follows.

First, fifth, ninth, . . . , and 61^(st) bits of eight 64-bit datablocks (a1) to (a8) which are input data items are stored in the XMMregister r0, second, sixth, tenth, . . . , and 62^(nd) bits thereof arestored in the XMM register r1, third, seventh, eleventh, . . . , and63^(rd) bits thereof are stored in the XMM register r2, and fourth,eighth, twelfth, . . . , and 64^(th) bits thereof are stored in the XMMregister r3.

As described above, 64 bits of the input data are repeatedly stored infour registers using the registers, in the unit of four bits.

Any register storage data [i,j] shown in FIG. 9 is the assembly of thesame orders of bits of the eight plain text data items (a1) to (a8), andis 8-bit data.

i is a parameter which is repeatedly set as 0, 1, 2, and 3 in the unitof four bits from the head of each input data of eight 64-bit plain textdata items (a1) to (a8), and shows a variable indicating which bit isstored among the unit of four bits.

j is a parameter indicating the order of the data of the units of fourbits, from the data of the unit of four bits of eight plain text dataitems (a1) to (a8).

5. KEY SCHEDULING PROCESS (KEY SCHEDULING PROCESS EXAMPLE 1)

Next, a process in Step S112 executed by the cryptographic processingunit 110 shown in FIG. 7, that is, the key scheduling process will bedescribed in detail.

The key scheduling process (Key Scheduling) in Step S112 is a process ofgenerating a plurality of round keys to be used in the cryptographicprocess, by using the bit slice expression key blocks generated in thekey conversion process (Key Conversion) in Step S111.

First, as described above with reference to FIG. 8, in Step S111, thebit slice expression key data items of eight 80-bit keys are dispersedand stored in the registers.

In Step S112, a generation process of the round keys is performed usingthe bit slice expression key data items stored in the registers.

The generation process of the round keys will be described in detailwith reference to FIG. 10 and the subsequent drawings. In addition, FIG.10 and the subsequent drawings illustrate the data expression [i,j] ofthe each register storage data shown in FIG. 8 by simplifying andrewriting to expression with the numbers from 79 to 0, as describedbelow. [0,0]=79, [1,0]=78, =77, [3,0]=76, [0,1] to [3,1]=75 to 72, [0,2]to =71 to 68, [0,14] to [3,14]=7 to 4, [0,15]=3, =2, [2,15]=1, and[3,15]=0.

In addition, in an initial state, [0,0]=79 is 8-bit data in which firstbits of eight 80-bit keys are assembled. Hereinafter, 78, 77, 76, 75, .. . , and 0 correspond to 8-bit data in which second, third, fourth,fifth, and final (80^(th)) bits of eight 80-bit keys are assembled.

The register storage data of the bit slice expression key data generatedin Step S111 is as shown in FIG. 10.

As shown in FIG. 10, 80 bit slice blocks from 0 to 79 are dispersed andstored in the registers.

Each block is a block (bit slice expression block) formed of 8-bit dataformed of the assembly of the same orders of bits of the eightcryptographic keys.

As will be described hereinafter, by executing the process of the blockunit using this block as a unit, the same process as the cryptographicprocess individually using the eight keys can be executed in a singlecryptographic process.

In Step S112, the round keys are generated using the eight bit-sliceexpressed 80-bit keys stored in the registers. 32 round keyscorresponding to the round number are necessary in the cryptographicprocess algorithm “PRESENT”, and in Step S112, 32 round keys aregenerated using the bit slice expression data stored in the registers.

In addition, the round keys generated by the process described below areround keys used in the process of the block (bit slice expression block)unit.

For example, in the normal PRESENT algorithm shown in FIG. 6, the roundkeys of each round used in the 64-bit plain text has 64 bits, but thecryptographic process in Step S122 of executing the cryptographicprocess using the bit slice data shown in FIG. 7, is executed as theprocess of the bit slice expression block unit.

That is, the plain text is subjected to the cryptographic process using64 blocks as a unit, and therefore the round keys to be used in thiscryptographic process are also the round keys with 64 blocks.

In the example, in one key block (bit slice expression key block), thedata of the same order of bits of the eight original cryptographic keys81, that is, eight bits are stored.

The round keys to be used in the bit slice cryptographic process of thepresent disclosure are the round keys with 64 blocks, that is, the roundkeys with 64×8 bits=512 bits.

The plain text which is the encryption process target is processed inthe same manner as described above, and the plain text input has 64 bitsin the normal PRESENT algorithm shown in FIG. 6, but in the bit slicecryptographic process of the present disclosure, 64 blocks of the bitslice expression data, that is, 64 blocks with 64×8 bits=512 bits areinput to execute the process.

In Step S112, 32 round keys formed of 64 blocks to be used in thecryptographic process between the bit slice expression blocks aregenerated.

As shown in FIG. 11, the generated round keys are written in memoryareas (m0 to m3) designated by a key pointer (pt).

FIG. 12 shows a specific flow of the key scheduling process executed inStep S112.

First, in Step S201, the input data and initial data are set.

In detail, the bit slice expression key data stored in the register isinput as the input data. In addition, the pointer (pt) indicating thememory area for writing the generated round key, and the round number Rnof the generated round key are set. Rn is set as 0, in the initialsetting, and subsequently Rn increases to 1, 2, 3, . . . and 31, and 32round keys are generated.

In Step S202, it is determined whether or not the Rn has reached 31. Ina case where the Rn is smaller than 31, the process proceeds to StepS203, and the pointer (pt) indicating a memory address for writing thegenerated round key is updated. The point (pt) may be updated whilesecuring the storage area of the round key.

In Step S204, the round key generation updating process is executed andthe round number Rn increases by one. This specific process will bedescribed later.

Next, the process returns to Step S202, and it is determined whether ornot the Rn has reached 31. In a case where the Rn is smaller than 31,Step S203 and the subsequent processes are repeated. In Step S202, in acase where it is determined that the Rn has reached 31, the processproceeds to Step S204, and a process of writing the generated round keyin the memory is executed. Finally, in Step S205, the generated roundkey is read out and the process transitions to the execution of thecryptographic process.

FIG. 13 shows a specific process flow of the round key generationupdating process executed in Step S203.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 11, the bit slice expression key blocksgenerated by the bit slice process are stored in the registers r0, r1,r2, r3, r4, r5, r6, and r7.

First, in Step S221 of the flowchart shown in FIG. 13, the registers r1,r2, r3, and r4 are copied to registers r9, r10, r11, and r8.

That is, as shown in FIG. 14, the registers r1, r2, r3, and r4 arecopied to the registers r9, r10, r11, and r8.

Next, in Step S222, a shuffling command is executed in the register r8,and replacement of the storage data in the register 8 is performed.

In addition, the shuffling executed in the apparatus of the presentdisclosure is a process of replacing the data stored in one register inthe block unit to store the data in the same register. That is, it is aprocess of replacing the data of the block unit in the register, in theblock unit.

For example, in a case where the storage data in the register r8 is thefollowing data in the unit of eight bits from the head, [0,0], [0,1],[0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9], [0,10], [0,11],[0,12], [0,13], [0,14], and [0,15], the shifting process in Step S222 isexecuted as the following shifting process.

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,1], [0,2], [0,3],[0,0], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0],[0,0], [0,0], [0,0]), that is, left direction shifting of the 8-bit dataunit is executed.

The results thereof are data shown in FIG. 15.

Next, in Step S223, an operation process corresponding to predeterminednonlinear conversion (Sbox logical command example) is executed withrespect to the storage data in registers r9, r10, r11, and r8.

As shown in FIG. 16, results of the nonlinear conversion (Sbox logicalcommand example) process executed with respect to the bocks 18, 17, 16,and 15 which are the storage data items in the registers r9, r10, r11,and r8, are stored in the registers r8, r9, r10, and r11. The results ofthe nonlinear conversion process are the following data shown in FIG.16.

The data items are data S0 in the register r8, data S1 in the registerr9, data S2 in the register r10, and data S3 in the register r11, andthe nonlinear conversion (Sbox logical command example) process used inthe example is executed as an operation process of executing the logicalcommand example shown in FIG. 17, for example, between the storage dataitems between the registers.

Registers x3, x2, x1, x0, and x4 shown as the logical command example ofFIG. 17 correspond to the registers r9, r10, r11, r8, and r12 shown inFIG. 16, respectively.

In addition, the register r12 shown in FIG. 16 corresponds to theregister x4 in the logical command example shown in FIG. 17, and is usedas a temporary area for storing intermediate data or the like in theoperation process.

Next, in Step S224, the storage data items in the registers r8, r9, r10,and r11 are shifted to the left by 120 bits.

FIG. 18 shows results of the left 120-bit shifting of the storage dataitems in the registers r8, r9, r10, and r11.

Next, in Step S225, the storage data items in the registers r5, r6, andr7 are shifted to the right by eight bits, and an AND operation of theregister r4 and a MASK0 formed of predetermined data and an ANDoperation of the registers r5, r6, and r7, and a MASK1 formed ofpredetermined data are performed.

In addition, a value of the MASK is not necessarily retained in theregister.

As shown in FIG. 19, the MASK0 is a mask in which only bits in thesecond to fourth blocks of the data unit of eight bits are set as 1 andthe other bits are set to 0.

As shown in FIG. 19, the MASK1 is a mask in which only bits in thesecond to fifth blocks of the data unit of eight bits are set as 1 andthe other bits are set to 0.

As shown in FIG. 19, with the AND process with the mask data items, the8-bit data items of the head of the registers r4 to r7 are rewritten as0.

Next, in Step S226, the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) of the registersr4, r5, r6, and r7 and the registers r11, r8, r9, and r10 is executed,and the output thereof is stored in the registers r4, r5, r6, and r7.

FIG. 20 shows the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) process and storage dataitems of the process result.

As a result of the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) process, the operationresults of the nonlinear conversion process (Sbox) in Step S223 whichare 8-bit data items of the heads of the registers r11, r8, r9, and r10are stored in eight bits of the heads of the registers r4, r5, r6, andr7.

Next, in Step S227, the shuffling command is executed with respect tothe registers r0, r1, r2, and r3, and the shuffled results are stored inthe registers r0, r1, r2, and r3.

FIG. 21 shows the storage data items of the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3before and after the shuffling process.

The order of data rearrangement in this shuffling process is differentbetween the register r0, and the registers r1, r2, and r3. The dataitems of the unit of eight bits in each register are [0,0, [0,1], [0,2],[0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9], [0,10], [0,11], [0,12],[0,13], [0,14], and [0,15] from the head.

In the shuffling process in Step S227, the following setting is executedwith respect to the register r0.

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,12], [0,13], [0,14],[0,15], [0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8],[0,9], [0,10], [0,11])

In addition, the following setting is executed with respect to theregisters r1, r2, and r3.

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,11], [0,12], [0,13],[0,14], [0,15], [0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7],[0,8], [0,9], [0,10])

Next, in Step S228, the data items in the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3are copied to the registers r8, r9, r10, and r11, the AND process of theregister r8 and MASK2 and the AND process of the registers r9, r10, andr11 and MASK3 are executed, and the results thereof are stored in theregisters r8, r9, r10, and r11.

The process results thereof are shown in FIG. 22.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 22, the MASK2 is mask data in which 32bits at the head are 0 and subsequent 96 bits are 1.

As shown in FIG. 22, the MASK3 is mask data in which 40 bits at the headare 0 and subsequent 88 bits are 1.

As a result of this process, 32 bits of the head of the register r8 areset to 0, and 40 bits of the head of the registers r9, r10, and r11 areset to 0.

Next, in Step S229, the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) of the registersr4, r5, r6, and r7, and the registers r8, r9, r10, and r11 is executed,and the results thereof are stored in the registers r4, r5, r6, and r7.

This exclusive-OR operation (XOR) process is shown in FIG. 23.

Next, in Step S230, the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) of round countervalues which are preset count values, is performed with respect to righteight bits of the registers r5, r6, r7, and r4 and left eight bits ofthe registers r1.

The round counter is set to each count value of 00000 to 11111 as binaryexpression according to the round number of 0 to 31.

For example, in a case of generating the round key with the round numberof 13, the round counter is set to each count value of 01101 indicating13 as the binary expression.

The XOR operation with the right eight bits of the registers r5, r6, r7,and r4 and left eight bits of the register r1 is performed with respectto the count value of 01101.

In addition, the order of the XOR operation with the count values of00000 to 11111 of the round counter is the order from the high-order bitof the original data of the storage value of each register. In theexample shown in FIG. 24, the order thereof is the order from the largevalue and is the order of 38, 37, 36, 35, and 34.

That is, the order of the registers is r5, r6, r7, r4, and r1.

As shown in FIG. 24, from the high-order bit, the XOR operation of theright 8-bit data in the register r5 ([38] in the register r5 shown inFIG. 24) is executed with respect to the first bit 0 of the count valueof 01101, the XOR operation of the right 8-bit data in the register r6([37] in the register r6 shown in FIG. 24) is executed with respect tothe second bit 1 of the count value of 01101, the XOR operation of theright 8-bit data in the register r7 ([36] in the register r7 shown inFIG. 24) is executed with respect to the third bit 1 of the count valueof 01101, the XOR operation of the right 8-bit data in the register r4([35] in the register r6 shown in FIG. 24) is executed with respect tothe fourth bit 0 of the count value of 01101, and the XOR operation ofthe left 8-bit data in the register r1 ([34] in the register r1 shown inFIG. 24) is executed with respect to the fifth bit 1 of the count valueof 01101, and each data is updated.

In addition, in this exclusive-OR operation (XOR), it is possible to useMASK4 and MASK5 as shown in FIG. 25.

The MASK4 is mask data in which first 120 bits are set to 0 and lasteight bits are set to 1.

The MASK5 is mask data in which first eight bits are set to 1 and last120 bits are set to 0.

The MASK4 is used for the XOR with the registers r5, r6, r7, and r4, andthe MASK5 is used for the XOR with the register r1.

In addition, from five bits of the round counter of 00000 to 11111, evenwhen it is set to execute the process with respect to the registercorresponding to the bit set as 1 as a target and not to execute theprocess with respect to the register corresponding to the bit set as 0,the same result of the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) in Step S230 isobtained.

That is, in a case where the value of the round counter, for example is13=01101, with respect to the register order of r5, r6, r7, r4, and r1from the high order of the original data described above, since only thesecond, third, and fifth bits of the round counter are set to 1, onlythe XOR operation of the register r6 and r7, and the MASK4, and the XORoperation of the register r1 and the MASK5 may be executed with respectto the registers r5, r6, r7, r4, and r1.

The storage data in the registers r5, r6, r7, r4, r1, r2, r3, and r0obtained as a result in Step S230 are set as blocks for next round keygeneration.

64 blocks from the blocks stored in the registers r5, r6, r7, r4, r1,r2, r3, and r0 are set as the round keys of the next round.

Hereinafter, the process according to the flow of FIG. 13 is repeatedusing the updated register storage blocks, and 32 round keys aregenerated.

Hereinabove, the specific process according to the flowchart shown inFIG. 13 has been described, but the round key generation and updatingprocess can be simplified and collectively shown as FIG. 26.

FIG. 26(A) is initial register storage data in which 80 blocks stored inthe plurality of registers shown in FIG. 10 are arranged from the highorder of 79 to 0.

64 blocks from the initial set blocks are selected as initial roundkeys.

After that, the process according to the flow shown in FIG. 13 isexecuted with respect to 80 blocks which are the initial registerstorage data shown in FIG. 26(A). That is, the processes described withreference to FIG. 14 to FIG. 25 are performed to update the registers.

FIG. 26(B) collectively shows the register updating process.

The register updating process is executed as a process including eachprocess of (a) a rotation process such as the shifting process or theshuffling process of the block unit, (b) the nonlinear conversionprocess (Sbox) of the block unit, and (c) the exclusive-OR operation ofthe block and the round counter (00000 to 111111).

As a result, register updated data, that is, data for generating thenext round keys, shown at a lowest stage of FIG. 26(B) is set. 64 blocksare selected from the left of the blocks of the registers and those areset as the round keys.

After that, the key updating of FIG. 26(B) is repeatedly performed withrespect to the register updated data shown at a lowest stage of FIG.26(B) to perform the register updating, and the round keys aresequentially generated.

By doing so, the round keys are generated in the key scheduling processin Step S112 shown in FIG. 7.

6. KEY SCHEDULING PROCESS (KEY SCHEDULING PROCESS EXAMPLE 2)

Next, another example of the key scheduling process in Step S112executed in the cryptographic processing unit 110 shown in FIG. 7 willbe described.

In the key scheduling unit described in [5. Key Scheduling Process (KeyScheduling Process Example 1)] described above, it is necessary toperform the Sbox, that is, the nonlinear conversion process for eachround. That is the nonlinear conversion process (Sbox) with respect tofour blocks described with reference to FIG. 16 and FIG. 17.

This nonlinear conversion process has a large number of operation stepsas shown in FIG. 17, and thus increases the processing time.

Hereinafter, as a key scheduling process example 2, a method in whichthe number of times of execution of the nonlinear conversion process(Sbox) is decreased to 2, will be described.

FIG. 27 shows a flow illustrating the process executed by the keyscheduling unit of the process example.

The differences between this process and the key scheduling processdescribed above with reference to FIG. 12 are the performing ofpre-calculation of the nonlinear conversion (Sbox) in Step S252 for thefirst round and before the 17^(th) round and Step S257, and the contentof the round key generation and updating process in Step S255 and StepS260.

The process in Step S251 of the flow of FIG. 27 is the same process asthe process in Step S201 of the flow of FIG. 12.

The process in Steps S254 and S259 of the flow of FIG. 27 is the sameprocess as the process in Step S203 of the flow of FIG. 12.

The process in Steps S256 and S261 of the flow of FIG. 27 is the sameprocess as the process in Step S205 of the flow of FIG. 12.

The process in Step S262 of the flow of FIG. 27 is the same process asthe process in Step S206 of the flow of FIG. 12.

The description of the processes will be omitted, and hereinafter theprocess different from the key scheduling process described withreference to FIG. 12 will be described.

(6-1. Pre-Calculation Process of Nonlinear Conversion (Sbox))

FIG. 28 and FIG. 29 show flows illustrating specific sequences of thepre-calculation process of the nonlinear conversion process (Sbox)executed in Step S252 and Step S257.

As shown in FIG. 30, in the initial state, bit slice expression keyblocks of 79 to 0 are stored in the registers. This is the same as inthe setting described above with reference to FIG. 10 and FIG. 11.

For example, the bit slice expression key block of [79]is 8-bit data inwhich the first bits of eight 80-bit keys are assembled. Hereinafter,78, 77, 76, 75, . . . and 0 correspond to 8-bit data items in which thesecond, third, fourth, fifth, . . . , and final (80^(th)) bits of eight80-bit keys are assembled.

According to the flows shown in FIG. 28 and FIG. 29, the specificsequences of the pre-calculation of nonlinear conversion (Sbox) executedin Step S252 and Step S257 of the flow of FIG. 27 will be described.

First, in Step S281 shown in the flow of FIG. 28, as shown in FIG. 31,the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3 are copied to the registers r12, r13,r14, and r15, and the shuffling command is performed with respect to theregisters r12, r13, r14, and r15.

The order of rearrangement in this shuffling process is differentbetween the registers.

When the arrangement of data in the registers r12, r13, r14, and r15before the shuffling (same as in registers r0, r1, r2, and r3) is set as[0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], and [0,15] from the left, theshuffling of each register is set as below.

Registers r12 and r13

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,1], [0,2], [0,3],[0,4], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14],[0,15], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0])

Register r14

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,1], [0,2], [0,3],[0,4], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9], [0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13],[0,15], [0,0], [0,0], [0,0])

Register r15:

[0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,1], [0,2], [0,3],[0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13],[0,15], [0,0], [0,0],

Next, in Step S282, as shown in FIG. 32, the data in the registers r4,r5, r6, and r7 are stored in the registers r8, r9, r10, and r11, and theregister r8 is subjected to a right 12-byte logical shift and registersr9, r10, and r11 are subjected to a right 13-byte logical shift.

Next, in Step S283, as shown in FIG. 33, the AND process of the registerr12 and MASK6 and the AND process of the registers r13, r14, and r15 andMASK7 are executed.

The MASK6 is a mask in which first 96 bits are set to 0 and last 32 bitsare set to 1.

The MASK7 is a mask in which first 104 bits are set to 0 and last 24bits are set to 1.

Next, in Step S284, as shown in FIG. 34, the exclusive-OR operation(XOR) of the registers r8, r9, r10, and r11 and the registers r12, r13,r14, and r15 is performed, and the results thereof are stored in theregisters r12, r13, r14, and r15.

Next, in Step S285, as shown in FIG. 35, the shuffling command isperformed with respect to the registers r13, r14, and r15.

When the arrangement of data in the registers r13, r14, and r15 beforethe shuffling (same as in registers r0, r1, r2, and r3) is set as [0,0],[0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9], [0,10],[0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], and [0,15] from the left, the shufflingof each register is set as below.

Register r13

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,12], [0,13], [0,14],[0,15], [0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8],[0,9], [0,10], [0,11])

Register r14

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,8], [0,9], [0,10],[0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15], [0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3],[0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7])

Register r15

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,4], [0,5], [0,6],[0,7], [0,8], [0,9], [0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15],[0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3])

Next, in Step S286, as shown in FIG. 36, the registers r13 and r15 arecopied to the registers r9 and r11.

Next, in Step S287, as shown in FIG. 37, an unpacking process of a byteunit is executed with respect to left 64 bits of the registers r13, r14,r15, and r12.

In addition, the unpacking process in the process of the presentdisclosure is a process of selecting the data stored in two registers,for example, from a high order or a low order using the block as aminimum unit, and alternately storing the data in one register of thetwo registers.

In detail, for example, this is a process of selecting half blocks ofall blocks stored in each register from two registers, and storing theblocks in one register again.

As shown in FIG. 37, the unpacking process of alternately storing lefteight blocks (64 bits) of the register r13 and the register r14 in theblock (eight bits) unit, in the register r13 from the left, is executed.

In the same manner as described above, the unpacking process ofalternately storing left eight blocks (64 bits) of the register 15 andthe register r12 in the block (eight bits) unit, in the register r15from the left, is executed.

Next, in Step S288, as shown in FIG. 38, the unpacking process in thebyte unit is executed with respect to right 64 bits of the registers r9,r14, r11, and r12.

As shown in FIG. 38, the unpacking process of alternately storing righteight blocks (64 bits) of the register r9 and the register r14 in theblock (eight bits) unit, in the register r9 from the right, is executed.

In the same manner as described above, the unpacking process ofalternately storing right eight blocks (64 bits) of the register 11 andthe register r12 in the register r11 from the right, in the block (eightbits) unit, is executed.

Next, in Step S289, as shown in FIG. 39, the registers r13 and r9 arecopied to the registers r12 and r14.

Next, in Step S290, as shown in FIG. 40, unpacking is performed in aword unit of two units of 8-bit blocks, with respect to left 64 bits ofthe registers r12 and r15, and the registers r14 and r11.

As shown in FIG. 40, the unpacking process of alternately storing theleft eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r12 and the register r15 inthe register r12 from the left, in the word unit of two blocks (16bits), is executed.

In the same manner as described above, the unpacking process ofalternately storing the left eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r14and the register r11 in the register r14 from the left, in the word unitof two blocks (16 bits), is executed.

Next, in Step S291, as shown in FIG. 41, unpacking is performed in aword unit of two units of 8-bit blocks, with respect to left 64 bits ofthe registers r13 and r15, and the registers r9 and r11.

As shown in FIG. 41, the unpacking process of alternately storing theright eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r13 and the register r15 inthe register r13 from the left, in the word unit of two blocks (16bits), is executed.

In the same manner as described above, the unpacking process ofalternately storing the right eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r9and the register r11 in the register r9 from the left, in the word unitof two blocks (16 bits), is executed.

Next, in Step S292, as shown in FIG. 42, the shuffling command isexecuted with respect to the registers r13, r14, and r9.

When the arrangement of data in the registers r13, r14, and r9 beforethe shuffling (same as in registers r0, r1, r2, and r3) is set as [0,0],[0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9], [0,10],[0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], and [0,15] from the left, the shufflingof each register is set as below.

Register r13

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,1], [0,2], [0,3],[0,0], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,4], [0,9], [0,10], [0,11], [0,8], [0,13],[0,14], [0,15], [0,12])

Register 14

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,2], [0,3], [0,0],[0,1], [0,6], [0,7], [0,4], [0,5], [0,10], [0,11], [0,8], [0,9], [0,14],[0,15], [0,12], [0,13])

Register 9

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,3], [0,0], [0,1],[0,2], [0,7], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,8], [0,11], [0,9], [0,10], [0,15],[0,12], [0,13], [0,14])

Next, in Step S293, as shown in FIG. 43, the AND of the registers r12,r13, r14, and r9 and MASK8, MASK9, MASK10, and MASK11 is acquired andstored in each register.

In addition, the MASK8 is a mask in which first 64 bits are set to 0 andlast 64 bits are set to 1, and the MASK9 is a mask in which the bits areset to 0, 1, 0, 1, in the unit of 32 bits from the head.

The MASK10 is a mask in which 16 bits from the head are continuously setto 0 and subsequent 16 bits are continuously set to 1, and alternatelyappears, and the MASK11 is a mask in which eight bits from the head arecontinuously set to 0 and subsequent eight bits are continuously set to1, and alternately appears.

Next, in Step S294, as shown in FIG. 44, the nonlinear conversionprocess (Sbox) with respect to the data items in the registers r12, r13,r14, and r9 is executed.

The nonlinear conversion process is the process described above withreference to FIG. 17.

The results of this nonlinear conversion process are stored in theregisters r9, r14, r13, and r12. In addition, the register r8 is used asa temporary area, when performing the process.

The data stored in 16 blocks each having eight bits from the left of theregisters r9, r14, r13, and r12 shown in FIG. 45 obtained as a resultthereof, is the result of the nonlinear conversion process (Sbox) for 16rounds.

In addition, after the pre-calculation of the Sbox, the registers r9,r14, r13, and r12 are stored in the registers r12, r13, r14, and r15before executing the key updating process.

Further, the replacement process of the registers can be executed by aprocess of only reading the registers again on the program.

By doing so, in the pre-calculation of Sbox in Step S252 shown in FIG.27, the results of the nonlinear conversion process (Sbox) to be used inthe round key generation of 1 to 16 rounds are generated, and in thepre-calculation of Sbox in Step S257 shown in FIG. 27, the results ofthe nonlinear conversion process (Sbox) to be used in the round keygeneration of 17 to 32 rounds are generated.

In the example, it is possible to generate the results of the nonlinearconversion process (Sbox) which are necessary for the round keygeneration of all rounds, only by performing the nonlinear conversionprocess (Sbox) two times.

(6-2. Generation and Updating Process of Round Key)

Next, the round key generation and updating process in Step S255 andStep S260 of the flow shown in FIG. 27 will be described in detail withreference to FIG. 46 and the subsequent drawings.

FIG. 46 is a flowchart illustrating a specific sequence of the round keygeneration and updating process in Step S255 and Step S260 of the flowshown in FIG. 27.

According to the flow shown in FIG. 46, the specific sequence of theround key generation and updating process executed in Step S255 and StepS260 of the flow of FIG. 27 will be described.

In addition, the register setting before starting the generation andupdating of the round key is as shown in FIG. 47.

As shown in FIG. 47, the keys in the bit slice expression are stored inthe registers r0, r1, r2, r3, r4, r5, r6, and r7.

In addition, the results of the pre-calculated nonlinear conversion(Sbox) process generated by the process described in (6-1.Pre-Calculation Process of Nonlinear Conversion (Sbox)) are stored inthe registers r12, r13, r14, and r15.

First, in Step S301 of FIG. 46, as shown in FIG. 48, the registers r12,r13, r14, and r15 in which the results of the nonlinear conversion(Sbox) process are stored, are copied to the registers r8, r9, r10, andr11, and the AND process with the MASK5 is executed.

In addition, herein, a process example of the round key generation andupdating using the Sbox value of the first round will be described, asan example.

For the pre-calculated nonlinear conversion process (Sbox) value, theleft eight bits of the registers r12, r13, r14, and r15 are used.

Next, in Step S302, as shown in FIG. 49, the registers r12, r13, r14,and r15 are subjected to left 8-bit logical shift.

Next, in Step S303, as shown in FIG. 50, the registers r5, r6, and r7are subjected to right 8-bit logical shift, and the AND of the registerr4 and the MASK0 and the AND of the registers r5, r6, and r7 and theMASK1 are acquired.

This process is the same process as the process in Step S225 of the flowof FIG. 13.

The storage data items in the register r5, r6, and r7 are shifted toright by eight bits, and the AND process of the register r4 and theMASK0 formed of predetermined data and the AND process of the registersr5, r6, and r7, and the MASK1 formed of predetermined data areperformed.

In addition, a value of the MASK is not necessarily retained in theregister.

As shown in FIG. 50, the MASK0 is a mask in which only bits in thesecond to fourth blocks of the data unit of eight bits are set as 1 andthe other bits are set to 0.

As shown in FIG. 50, the MASK1 is a mask in which only bits in thesecond to fifth blocks of the data unit of eight bits are set as 1 andthe other bits are set to 0.

As shown in FIG. 50, with the AND process with the mask data items, the8-bit data items of the head of the registers r4 to r7 are rewritten as0.

Next, in Step S304, as shown in FIG. 51, the exclusive-OR operation(XOR) of the registers r4, r5, r6, and r7 and the registers r11, r8, r9,and r10 is executed, and the output thereof is stored in the registersr4, r5, r6, and r7.

THIS process is the same process as the process in Step S226 of the flowof FIG. 13.

As a result of the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) process, the operationresults of the nonlinear conversion process (Sbox) in Step S223 whichare 8-bit data items of the heads of the registers r11, r8, r9, and r10are stored in eight bits of the heads of the registers r4, r5, r6, andr7.

Next, in Step S305, as shown in FIG. 52, the shuffling command isexecuted with respect to the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3, and theshuffled results are stored in the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3.

FIG. 52 shows the storage data items of the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3before and after the shuffling process.

This process is the same process as the process in Step S227 of the flowof FIG. 13.

The order of data rearrangement in this shuffling process is differentbetween the register r0, and the registers r1, r2, and r3. The dataitems of the unit of eight bits in each register are [0,0, [0,1], [0,2],[0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9], [0,10], [0,11], [0,12],[0,13], [0,14], and [0,15] from the head.

In the shuffling process in Step S305, the following setting is executedwith respect to the register r0.

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,12], [0,13], [0,14],[0,15], [0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8],[0,9], [0,10], [0,11])

In addition, the following setting is executed with respect to theregisters r1, r2, and r3.

([0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7], [0,8], [0,9],[0,10], [0,11], [0,12], [0,13], [0,14], [0,15])→([0,11], [0,12], [0,13],[0,14], [0,15], [0,0], [0,1], [0,2], [0,3], [0,4], [0,5], [0,6], [0,7],[0,8], [0,9], [0,10])

Next, in Step S306, as shown in FIG. 53, the data items in the registersr0, r1, r2, and r3 are copied to the registers r8, r9, r10, and r11, theAND process of the register r8 and MASK2 and the AND process of theregisters r9, r10, and r11 and MASK3 are executed, and the resultsthereof are stored in the registers r8, r9, r10, and r11.

This process is the same process as the process in Step S228 of the flowof FIG. 13.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 53, the MASK2 is mask data in which 32bits at the head are 0 and subsequent 96 bits are 1.

As shown in FIG. 53, the MASK3 is mask data in which 40 bits at the headare 0 and subsequent 88 bits are 1.

As a result of this process, 32 bits of the head of the register r8 areset to 0, and 40 bits of the head of the registers r9, r10, and r11 areset to 0.

Next, in Step S307, as shown in FIG. 54, the exclusive-OR operation(XOR) of the registers r4, r5, r6, and r7, and the registers r8, r9,r10, and r11 is executed, and the results thereof are stored in theregisters r4, r5, r6, and r7.

This process is the same process as the process in Step S229 of the flowof FIG. 13.

Next, in Step S308, as shown in FIG. 55, the exclusive-OR operation(XOR) of round counter values which are preset count values, isperformed with respect to the right eight bits of the registers r5, r6,r7, and r4 and the left eight bits of the registers r1.

This process is the same process as the process in Step S230 of the flowof FIG. 13.

The round counter is set to each count value of 00000 to 11111 as binaryexpression according to the round number of 0 to 31.

For example, in a case of generating the round key with the round numberof 13, the round counter is set to each count value of 01101 indicating13 as the binary expression.

The XOR operation with the right eight bits of the registers r5, r6, r7,and r4 and left eight bits of the register r1 is performed with respectto the count value of 01101.

In addition, the order of the XOR operation with the count values of00000 to 11111 of the round counter is the order from the high-order bitof the original data of the storage value of each register. In theexample shown in FIG. 24, the order thereof is the order from the largevalue and is the order of 38, 37, 36, 35, and 34.

That is, the order of the registers is r5, r6, r7, r4, and r1.

As shown in FIG. 55, from the high-order bit, the XOR operation of theright 8-bit data in the register r5 ([38] in the register r5 shown inFIG. 55) is executed with respect to the first bit 0 of the count valueof 01101, the XOR operation of the right 8-bit data in the register r6([37] in the register r6 shown in FIG. 55) is executed with respect tothe second bit 1 of the count value of 01101, the XOR operation of theright 8-bit data in the register r7 ([36] in the register r7 shown inFIG. 55) is executed with respect to the third bit 1 of the count valueof 01101, the XOR operation of the right 8-bit data in the register r4([35] in the register r6 shown in FIG. 55) is executed with respect tothe fourth bit 0 of the count value of 01101, and the XOR operation ofthe left 8-bit data in the register r1 ([34] in the register r1 shown inFIG. 55) is executed with respect to the fifth bit 1 of the count valueof 01101, and each data is updated.

In addition, in this exclusive-OR operation (XOR), it is possible to usethe MASK4 and the MASK5 as shown in FIG. 55.

The MASK4 is mask data in which first 120 bits are set to 0 and lasteight bits are set to 1.

The MASK5 is mask data in which first eight bits are set to 1 and last120 bits are set to 0.

The MASK4 is used for the XOR with the registers r5, r6, r7, and r4, andthe MASK5 is used for the XOR with the register r1.

In addition, from five bits of the round counter of 00000 to 11111, evenwhen it is set to execute the process with respect to the registercorresponding to the bit set as 1 as a target and not to execute theprocess with respect to the register corresponding to the bit set as 0,the same result of the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) in Step S230 isobtained.

That is, in a case where the value of the round counter, for example is13=01101, with respect to the register order of r5, r6, r7, r4, and r1from the high order of the original data described above, since only thesecond, third, and fifth bits of the round counter are set to 1, onlythe XOR operation of the register r6 and r7, and the MASK4, and the XORoperation of the register r1 and the MASK5 may be executed with respectto the registers r5, r6, r7, r4, and r1.

The storage data in the registers r5, r6, r7, r4, r1, r2, r3, and r0obtained as a result in Step S308 are set as blocks for next round keygeneration.

64 blocks from the blocks stored in the registers r5, r6, r7, r4, r1,r2, r3, and r0 are set as the round keys of the next round.

Hereinafter, the process according to the flow of FIG. 46 is repeatedusing the updated register storage blocks, and 32 round keys aregenerated.

As described above, in the (key scheduling process example 2), it ispossible to reduce four times of execution of the nonlinear conversionprocess (Sbox) necessary in the key scheduling process example 1, intotwo times.

The effect of reduction of the number of processes of the (keyscheduling process example 2) will be considered.

The comparison of the number of the process steps between two keyscheduling processes described above, which are (A) key schedulingprocess example 1 (process according to the flows of FIG. 12 and FIG.13) and (B) key scheduling process example 2 (process according to theflows of FIG. 27 to FIG. 29 and FIG. 46) is as follows.

(A) Key Scheduling Process Example 1

The number of commands necessary for the key updating process with noSbox pre-calculation is as follows.

Key updating process:1847(=57×31+80)

(B) Key Scheduling Process Example 2

The number of commands necessary for the key updating process with Sboxpre-calculation is as follows.

Sbox pre-calculation+key updating process:1411

(Sbox pre-calculation:132(=66×2),key updating process:1289(39×31+80))

As described above, compared to the (A) key scheduling process example1, (B) key scheduling process example 2 can reduce the number of processsteps, and the process is more rapidly realized.

7. CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESS

Next, the process in Step S122 executed by the cryptographic processingunit 110 shown in FIG. 7, that is, the cryptographic process will bedescribed in detail.

The cryptographic process (Data Processing) in Step S122 is a step ofexecuting the cryptographic process using the round key, with respect tothe bit slice expression data generated based on the plain text data inthe data conversion process (Data Conversion) in Step S111.

The process according to the cryptographic algorithm such as theaddition (XOR) process with the round key, the linear conversionprocess, or the nonlinear conversion process using the block configuringthe bit slice expression data generated by the bit slice process as aunit, is executed according to the software (program).

This cryptographic process will be described in detail with reference toFIG. 57 and the subsequent drawings.

A flowchart shown in FIG. 57 is a flowchart illustrating a specificsequence of the process in Step S122 executed by the cryptographicprocessing unit 110 shown in FIG. 7, that is, the cryptographic process.

The data input and initial setting are performed in Step S401.

In detail, the bit slice expression data of the plain text data which isthe encryption process target stored in the register is input.

This is the data generated in the data conversion process in Step S121of FIG. 7, and is the bit slice expression data generated by theconversion process of the plain text data 82 described above withreference to FIG. 9. That is, 64 blocks of the bit slice expressionblocks [0,0] to [3,15] shown in FIG. 9 are input.

In the example, the bit slice expression blocks [0,0] to [3,15] shown inFIG. 9 are blocks in which the same orders of bits of eight plain textitems which are the cryptographic process targets are stored, and are8-bit data items, respectively.

In Step S401, the bit slice expression data is input, and the initialsetting of setting the round number Rn corresponding to the count valueof the round number of the cryptographic process as 0, and the initialsetting of the key pointer (pt) indicating the memory area in which theround key is stored, are performed. The key pointer (pt) represents thememory address of the round key written in the memory area. The initialvalue of the round number Rn is set to 0, and Rn increases after thecompletion of each round.

Steps S402 to S404 are process of the cryptographic process in eachround unit, and in Step S402, the round key addition, that is,exclusive-OR operation (addRoundKey) of the round key and the inputplain text data (bit slice expression data) is executed, in Step S403,the nonlinear conversion process (SboxLayer) with respect to the resultsof the round key addition is executed, and in Step S404, the linearconversion process (pLayer) with respect to the results of the nonlinearconversion process is executed.

In addition, the processes will be described later in detail.

In Step S405, it is confirmed whether or not the process round hasreached Rn=31 which is the final round.

In a case where the Rn is smaller than 31, the processes in Steps S402to S404 are executed as the next round process.

In Step S405, in a case where it is determined that the process roundhas reached Rn=31 which is the final round, the cryptographic text isoutput in Step S406.

The reverse data conversion process in Step S23 shown in FIG. 7 isexecuted with respect to the output cryptographic text, and the outputcryptographic text is output as final cryptographic text 90.

FIG. 58 shows a configuration example of a case of executing thecryptographic process step in Step S122 executed by the cryptographicprocessing unit 110 shown in FIG. 7, with the hardware configuration,for example.

FIG. 58 shows three processes which are (a) round key addition(addRoundKey), (b) nonlinear conversion (SboxLayer), and (c) linearconversion (pLayer), for two rounds.

The round operation with the three processes is repeatedly executed inthe plurality of rounds, and the cryptographic text is output.

In the apparatus of the present disclosure, the round operation by theoperation process with respect to the bit slice expression data storedin the register or the shifting process of the register storage data,that is, the three processes in Step S402 to S404 shown in the flow ofFIG. 57 which are (a) round key addition (addRoundKey), (b) nonlinearconversion (SboxLayer), and (c) linear conversion (pLayer), areexecuted, without using the dedicated hardware for the cryptographicprocess as shown in FIG. 58, for example.

Hereinafter, each process executed by the apparatus of the presentdisclosure will be described in detail.

First, the key addition process (addRoundKey) in Step S402 will bedescribed with reference to FIG. 59.

The round key addition in Step S402 is the exclusive-OR operation(addRoundKey) of the round key and the input plain text data (bit sliceexpression data).

The round key is the round key generated by the key conversion processin Step S111 and the key scheduling process in Step S112 of thecryptographic processing unit 110, with the input of the cryptographickey 81 shown in FIG. 7.

The round key generation process is the process described in [4. KeyConversion Process and Data Conversion Process], [5. Key SchedulingProcess (Key Scheduling Process Example 1)], and [6. Key SchedulingProcess (Key Scheduling Process Example 2)] described above.

The round key is stored in the memory and the round key is acquired fromthe area indicated by the key point (pt).

The plain text data which is the cryptographic process target is the bitslice expression data of the plain text data 82 shown in FIG. 7, asdescribed in [4. Key Conversion Process and Data Conversion Process]described above. That is, the plain text data is the bit sliceexpression data stored in the register by the process described abovewith reference to FIG. 9.

In addition, in the example, description will be made on the assumptionthat the cryptographic process with respect to the bit slice expressiondata generated based on the eight 64-bit plain text items (a1) to (a8)is performed as shown in FIG. 9.

FIG. 59 shows the bit slice expression data stored in the four 128-bitregisters r0 to r3. [i,j] which is the register storage data of FIG. 59is the bit slice expression block formed of the assembly of the sameorders of bits of the eight plain text items (a1) to (a8) shown in FIG.9.

The bit slice expression block formed of the assembly of the first bitsof the eight plain text items (a1) to (a8) is set as [0,0], the bitslice expression block formed of the assembly of the second bits thereofis set as [1,0], the bit slice expression block formed of the assemblyof the third bits thereof is set as [2,0], the bit slice expressionblock formed of the assembly of the fourth bits thereof is set as [3,0],the bit slice expression block formed of the assembly of the fifth bitsthereof is set as [0,1], . . . , the bit slice expression block formedof the assembly of the 63^(rd) bits thereof is set as [2,15], and thebit slice expression block formed of the assembly of the 64^(th) bitsthereof is set as [3,15], and the bit slice expression blocks [0,0] toeach formed of eight bits are dispersed and stored in four registers r0to r3.

The key addition process in Step S402 of the flow of FIG. 57 is executedas the exclusive-OR operation (XOR) process of the storage data of thefour 128-bit registers r0 to r3 shown in FIG. 59 and the round keystored in the memory.

Both the plain text and the round key to be subjected to theexclusive-OR operation (XOR) process are data for 64 blocks of the 8-bitbit slice expression block.

The exclusive-OR operation (XOR) process with the round key (128 bits(16 blocks)) stored in the memory position designated by the pointer(pt) is executed in the unit of each register (=128-bit register (for 16blocks)).

For the round key, the data in the area designated by the key pointer(pt) is used.

While moving the key pointer (pt) forward by 16 blocks (128 bits) foreach exclusive-OR operation (XOR) of one register (128 bits), theexclusive-OR operation (XOR) with the bit slice expression data of theplain text data which is the encryption target stored in four registersr0 to r3 is executed, and the operation results are stored in theregisters.

Next, the process in Step S403 of the flowchart shown in FIG. 57 will bedescribed.

Step S403 is the nonlinear conversion process (SboxLayer) with respectto the round key addition process in Step S402.

The nonlinear conversion process (SboxLayer) is executed as theoperation process between the registers using four 128-bit registers inwhich the round key addition results are stored and one temporaryregister.

In detail, as shown in FIG. 60, the process is executed as the operationprocess between registers.

The process is realized by the operation process.

From the registers x3, x2, x1, x0, and x4 shown in FIG. 17, theregisters x3 to x0 correspond to the four 128-bit registers in which theround key addition results are stored, and the register x4 correspondsto the register used as the temporary area.

The results of the nonlinear conversion process (SboxLayer) are storedin the four 128-bit registers, for example, registers r0 to r4.

Next, the process in Step S404 of the flowchart shown in FIG. 57 will bedescribed.

The process in Step S404 is the linear conversion process (pLayer) withrespect to the results of the nonlinear conversion in Step S403.

FIG. 61 shows a flowchart illustrating the specific sequence of thislinear conversion process (pLayer).

The processes in each step of the flowchart shown in FIG. 61 will bedescribed in order.

In addition, the data which is the process target of the linearconversion process (pLayer) is the result of the nonlinear conversion inStep S403, and the result of the nonlinear conversion in Step S403 arestored in the four 128-bit registers r0 to r3, as shown in FIG. 62.

First, in Step S451, as shown in FIG. 63, the shuffling command isexecuted with respect to the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3 and theresults thereof are stored in the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3.

When the arrangement of data in the registers r0, r1, r2, and r3 beforethe shuffling (same as in registers r0, r1, r2, and r3) is set as [i,0],[i,1], [i,2], [i,3], [i,4], [i,5], [i,6], [i,7], [i,8], [i,9], [i,10],[i,11], [i,12], [i,13], [i,14], and [i,15] from the left, and hereini={0, 1, 2, 3}, the shuffling of each register is set as below.

Register ri

i={0, 1, 2, 3}

([i,0], [i,1], [i,2], [i,3], [1,4], [i,5], [i,6], [i,7], [i,8], [i,9],[i,10], [i,11], [i,12], [i,13], [i,14], [i,15])→([i,0], [i,4], [i,8],[i,12], [i,1], [i,5], [i,9], [i,13], [i,2], [i,6], [i,10], [i,14],[i,3], [i,7], [i,11], [i,15])

Next, in Step S452, as shown in FIG. 64, the registers r0 and r2 arecopied to the registers r4 and r5.

Next, in Step S453, as shown in FIG. 65, the unpacking command isexecuted with respect to the left 64 bits of the registers r0 and r1 andthe registers r2 and r3, in a double word unit.

As shown in FIG. 65, the unpacking process of alternately storing theleft eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r0 and the register r2 inthe register r0 from the left, in the double word (32 bits (fourblocks)) unit, is executed.

In the same manner as described above, the unpacking process ofalternately storing the left eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r2and the register r3 in the register r2 from the left, in the double word(32 bits (four blocks)) unit, is executed.

Next, in Step S454, as shown in FIG. 66, the unpacking command isexecuted with respect to the right 64 bits of the registers r4 and r1and the registers r5 and r3, in the double word unit.

As shown in FIG. 66, the unpacking process of alternately storing theright eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r4 and the register r1 inthe register r4 from the left, in the double word (32 bits (fourblocks)) unit, is executed.

In the same manner as described above, the unpacking process ofalternately storing the right eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r5and the register r3 in the register r5 from the left, in the double word(32 bits (four blocks)) unit, is executed.

Next, in Step S455, as shown in FIG. 67, the registers r0 and r4 arecopied to the registers r1 and r3.

Next, in Step S456, as shown in FIG. 68, the unpacking command isexecuted with respect to the left 64 bits of the registers r0 and r2 andthe registers r4 and r5, in a quad word unit.

As shown in FIG. 68, the unpacking process of alternately storing theleft eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r0 and the register r2 inthe register r0 from the left, in the quad word (64 bits (eight blocks))unit, is executed.

In the same manner as described above, the unpacking process ofalternately storing the left eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r4and the register r5 in the register r4 from the left, in the quad word(64 bits (eight blocks)) unit, is executed.

Next, in Step S457, as shown in FIG. 69, the unpacking command isexecuted with respect to the right 64 bits of the registers r1 and r2and the registers r3 and r5, in the quad word unit.

As shown in FIG. 69, the unpacking process of alternately storing theright eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r1 and the register r2 inthe register r1 from the left, in the quad word (64 bits (eight blocks))unit, is executed.

In the same manner as described above, the unpacking process ofalternately storing the right eight blocks (64 bits) of the register r3and the register r5 in the register r3 from the left, in the quad word(64 bits (eight blocks)) unit, is executed.

The registers r0, r1, r4, and r3 generated as the process results inSteps S451 to S457 of the flow shown in FIG. 61 are set to the input ofthe next round, as the results of the linear conversion.

FIG. 70 shows correspondence between the input and output of the linearconversion process in Step S404 of the flow of FIG. 57.

As described above, one round operation is configured with the round keyaddition in Step S402, the nonlinear conversion in Step S403, and thelinear conversion in Step S404 of the flow shown in FIG. 57.

The number of commands of each process of this round operation processis as follows.

(a) Round key addition (addRoundKey): 4

(b) Nonlinear conversion (SboxLayer): 20

(c) Linear conversion (pLayer): 16

In Step S122 of the cryptographic processing unit 110 shown in FIG. 7,the round operation according to the flow shown in FIG. 57 is repeatedthe predetermined number of times (32) defined in the cryptographicalgorithm. Next, in Step S123, the reverse data conversion process isexecuted with respect to these process results.

Step S123 is the reverse data conversion process (Data Conversion⁻¹)with respect to the results of the cryptographic process (DataProcessing) in Step S122, and is a process of returning the bit sliceexpression data to the assembly of encrypted data corresponding to theplain text data 82 before the bit slice process. This process isexecuted as a reverse process of the generation process of the bit sliceexpression data described above with reference to FIG. 9.

With this process, the encrypted data 91 corresponding to the plain textdata 82 is generated as the output data 90.

In addition, in the example described above, in order to efficientlyexecute the linear conversion process (pLayer) of [PRESENT] which is thecryptographic algorithm in the software, the bit slice expression of thedata is configured so as to set the process to be performed at intervalsof four bits, as described above with reference to FIG. 9. With thisconfiguration, for example, by executing the shuffling and the unpackingcommand of the Intel extension SIMD command, in combination according tothe processes with reference to FIGS. 61 to 70, it is possible toexecute the linear conversion (pLayer) with 16 commands for each round.

In addition, in the cryptographic algorithm [PRESENT], when performingthe updating process of the round key corresponding to one round, theprocess is set to perform the nonlinear conversion process using singleSbox.

With respect to this, according to the configuration described in [6.Key Scheduling Process (Key Scheduling Process Example 2)] describedabove, the key scheduling unit which performs the process by inputting80-bit keys, can generate the round keys for 32 rounds by performing thenonlinear conversion process two times, and can perform the round keygeneration with the small number of commands, and therefore the processis rapidly performed.

As described above, the information processing apparatus of the presentdisclosure can rapidly execute the process of the specific cryptographicalgorithm, for example, the cryptographic algorithm [PRESENT] describedabove, in the information processing apparatus which does not have thededicated hardware for executing the cryptographic algorithm, forexample, the information processing apparatus such as the PC.

8. CONFIGURATION EXAMPLE OF INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS ANDCRYPTOGRAPHIC PROCESSING APPARATUS

Finally, an apparatus configuration example of the informationprocessing apparatus or the cryptographic processing apparatus whichexecutes the cryptographic process according to the example describedabove, will be described. The information processing apparatus includes,for example, the server described above with reference to FIGS. 1 to 5.

The cryptographic process according to the example described above canbe executed in a device, for example, the PC or the server whichincludes the data processing unit configured with the CPU or the likefor executing the software (program) defining the cryptographic processalgorithm, and the memory for storing the programs or the data.

FIG. 71 shows a configuration example of the information processingapparatus or the cryptographic processing apparatus which executes thecryptographic process of the present disclosure.

A central processing unit (CPU) 701 functions as the data processingunit which executes various processes according to programs stored in aread only memory (ROM) 702 or a storage unit 708. For example, the CPUexecutes the process according to the sequences described above.

A random access memory (RAM) 703 stores the program executed by the CPU701 or the data. For example, the program defining the cryptographicprocess sequence described above is stored therein. The RAM alsoincludes the registers storing the data to be used in each processdescribed above, and the memory area used as the work area.

The CPU 701, the ROM 702, and the RAM 703 are connected to each otherthrough a bus 704.

The CPU 701 is connected to an input and output interface 705 throughthe bus 704, and an input unit 706 configured with various switches, akeyboard, a mouse, or a microphone and an output unit 707 configuredwith a display or a speaker are connected to the input and outputinterface 705. The CPU 701 executes various processes in accordance withcommands input from the input unit 706, and outputs the process resultsto the output unit 707, for example.

The storage unit 708 connected to the input and output interface 705 isconfigured with a hard disk, for example, and stores the programexecuted by the CPU 701 or various data items. A communication unit 709communicates with an external device through a network such as theInternet or a local area network.

For example, in a case of the server described above with reference toFIGS. 1 to 5, the communication unit 709 executes a reception process ofthe encrypted data from the plurality of user terminals or sensors, or atransmission process of the encrypted data with respect to the pluralityof user terminals or sensors.

A drive 710 connected to the input and output interface 705 drives aremovable medium 711 such as a magnetic disk, an optical disk, amagnet-optical disk, or a semiconductor memory such as a memory card,and executes recording or reading of the data.

In addition, in the example described above, mainly the encryptionprocess of encrypting the plain text as the input data has beendescribed, but the process of the present disclosure can also be appliedto the decryption process of restoring the cryptographic text as theinput data to the plain text, not only the encryption process ofencrypting the plain text as the input data.

9. SUMMARY OF CONFIGURATIONS OF PRESENT DISCLOSURE

Hereinabove, the example of the present disclosure has been described indetail with reference to the specific examples. However, a personskilled in the art can, of course, perform correction or replacement ofthe examples within a range not departing from the gist of the presentdisclosure. That is, the present invention has been described with theexamples, and the examples are not intended to limit the invention. Inorder to determine the gist of the present disclosure, it is necessaryto refer to the claims.

In addition, according to one example of the present disclosure,speed-up of the cryptographic process of the lightweight cryptogram withsoftware (program) using the cloud computing process, for example, isrealized.

In detail, the plurality of user terminals or sensors transmits the dataencrypted by the lightweight cryptographic algorithm with the individualcryptographic key, and the server receives the encrypted data andperforms the data process according to the program defining thedecryption process sequence. It is possible to generate the bit sliceexpression data by performing the bit slice process with respect to theplurality of encrypted data items which are decryption target, togenerate the bit slice expression key based on the cryptographic key ofeach encrypted data item, to generate the round key based on the bitslice expression key, to perform the decryption process includingoperation and movement processes of the block unit of the bit sliceexpression data, and the operation using the round key, and to generatethe plurality of plain text data items corresponding to the plurality ofencrypted data items by the reverse conversion of the data with respectto the decryption process results.

In addition, in the decryption process according to one example of thepresent disclosure, the process is performed by the operation ormovement process of the bit slice expression block unit stored in aregister, and it is possible to perform the processing of the mass dataat a high speed. In detail, in a case where a cryptographic algorithm[PRESENT (key length of 80 bits)] is executed in Intel Core i7 870processor, a high speed of 11.06 cycles/byte is achieved.

In addition, in the examples described above, mainly the executionprocess example of the cryptographic algorithm [PRESENT (key length of80 bits)] has been described, but the process of the present disclosurecan also be applied to the other algorithm. For example, in a case wherea cryptographic algorithm [Piccolo (key length of 80 bits)] is executedaccording to the process of the present disclosure, a high speed of 5.59cycles/byte is achieved. Particularly the speed of Piccolo exceeds 6.92cycles/byte which is a speed record of Advanced Encryption Standard(AES) in the same platform (Intel Core i7 920) which is known in therelated art.

In addition, since S-box is calculated by a logical operation withoutreferring to a table in bit slice installation according to one exampleof the present disclosure, it is possible to increase durability withrespect to the side channel attack such as a cache attack or across-virtual machine attack. Further, regarding the speed-up of thecryptographic process in the software in the cloud computing process,the cryptographic process can be completed with the smaller number ofcycles, and these results in a decrease of power consumption of thecloud or a data center.

In addition, in the system according to one example of the presentdisclosure, it is not necessary to introduce dedicated hardware for thecryptographic process to the cloud or the data center, and thereforescalability is improved.

Further, it is possible to use the lightweight cryptogram in the cloudwhich was difficult to be used in the related art, and thus installationof the lightweight cryptogram in the sensor is promoted and it ispossible to realize a sensor network at low cost and low powerconsumption.

In addition, the technology disclosed in the present specification canhave the following configurations.

(1) An information processing apparatus including:

a communication unit which receives encrypted data transmitted by aplurality of data transmission devices; and a data processing unit whichexecutes a decryption process of the plurality of encrypted data itemsreceived through the communication unit,

in which the data processing unit has a configuration of executing adata process according to a program defining a decryption processsequence, and

the data processing unit, according to the program, executes

-   -   a data conversion process of generating bit slice expression        data by performing a bit slice process with respect to the        plurality of encrypted data items which are decryption process        targets,    -   a key conversion process of generating a bit slice expression        key by performing a bit slice process with respect to each        cryptographic key of the plurality of encrypted data items,    -   a key scheduling process of inputting the bit slice expression        key to generate a round key for each round of the decryption        process,    -   a decryption process in which the round key is applied with        respect to the bit slice expression data, and    -   a reverse data conversion process of generating a plurality of        plain text data items corresponding to the plurality of        encrypted data items, by performing reverse conversion of the        bit slice process with respect to the result of the decryption        process.

(2) The information processing apparatus according to (1),

in which the communication unit receives the encrypted data and a deviceID of a transmission device of the encrypted data, and

the data processing unit

-   -   selectively acquires the cryptographic key corresponding to each        encrypted data item from a storage unit based on the device ID,        or extracts the cryptographic key corresponding to each        encrypted data item with a predetermined operation based on the        device ID, and    -   generates the bit slice expression key by performing the bit        slice process with respect to the cryptographic key in the key        conversion process.

(3) The information processing apparatus according to (1) or (2),

in which the data processing unit executes the decryption process usingan operation process and a movement process of a bit slice expressiondata block unit configured with the same orders of bits or bits at everyn bits of each encrypted data item configuring the bit slice expressiondata in the decryption process, and herein n is a power of 2.

(4) The information processing apparatus according to any one of (1) to(3),

in which the data processing unit generates the round key by using anoperation process and a movement process of a bit slice expression keyblock unit configured with the same orders of bits or bits at every nbits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit slice expression keyin the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of 2.

(5) An information processing system including:

a transmission terminal which generates and transmits encrypted data;and

a server which receives the plurality of encrypted data itemstransmitted by the plurality of transmission terminals,

in which the server includes a data processing unit which executes adata process according to a program defining a decryption processsequence, and

the data processing unit, according to the program, executes

-   -   a data conversion process of generating bit slice expression        data by performing a bit slice process with respect to the        plurality of encrypted data items which are decryption process        targets,    -   a key conversion process of generating a bit slice expression        key by performing a bit slice process with respect to each        cryptographic key of the plurality of encrypted data items,    -   a key scheduling process of inputting the bit slice expression        key to generate a round key for each round of the decryption        process,    -   a decryption process in which the round key is applied with        respect to the bit slice expression data, and    -   a reverse data conversion process of generating a plurality of        plain text data items corresponding to the plurality of        encrypted data items, by performing reverse conversion of the        bit slice process with respect to the result of the decryption        process.

(6) The information processing system according to (5),

in which the plurality of transmission terminals transmit the encrypteddata and a device ID of a transmission device of the encrypted data, and

the data processing unit of the server

-   -   selectively acquires the cryptographic key corresponding to each        encrypted data item from a storage unit based on the device ID,        or extracts the cryptographic key corresponding to each        encrypted data item with a predetermined operation based on the        device ID, and    -   generates the bit slice expression key by performing the bit        slice process with respect to the cryptographic key in the key        conversion process.

(7) The information processing system according to (5) or (6),

in which the data processing unit of the server executes the decryptionprocess using an operation process and a movement process of a bit sliceexpression data block unit configured with the same orders of bits orbits at every n bits of each encrypted data item configuring the bitslice expression data in the decryption process, and herein n is a powerof 2.

(8) The information processing system according to any one of (5) to(7),

in which the data processing unit of the server generates the round keyby using an operation process and a movement process of a bit sliceexpression key block unit configured with the same orders of bits orbits at every n bits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit sliceexpression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of2.

(9) An information processing apparatus including:

a communication unit which transmits encrypted data with respect to adata reception device; and

a data processing unit which executes a generation process of theplurality of encrypted data items transmitted through the communicationunit,

in which the data processing unit has a configuration of executing adata process according to a program defining a cryptographic processsequence, and

the data processing unit, according to the program, executes

-   -   a data conversion process of generating bit slice expression        data by performing a bit slice process with respect to a        plurality of plain text data items which are encryption process        targets,    -   a key conversion process of generating a bit slice expression        key by performing a bit slice process with respect to each        cryptographic key of the plurality of plain text data items,    -   a key scheduling process of inputting the bit slice expression        key to generate a round key for each round of the encryption        process,    -   a cryptographic process in which the round key is applied with        respect to the bit slice expression data, and    -   a reverse data conversion process of generating the plurality of        encrypted data items corresponding to the plurality of plain        text data items, by performing reverse conversion of the bit        slice process with respect to the result of the cryptographic        process.

(10) The information processing apparatus according to (9),

in which the data processing unit

-   -   selectively acquires the cryptographic key corresponding to each        plain text data from a storage unit based on a device ID of a        transmission destination to which the encrypted data is        transmitted, or extracts the cryptographic key corresponding to        each encrypted data item with a predetermined operation based on        the device ID, and    -   generates the bit slice expression key by performing the bit        slice process with respect to the cryptographic key in the key        conversion process.

(11) The information processing apparatus according to (9) or (10),

in which the data processing unit executes the encryption process usingan operation process and a movement process of a bit slice expressiondata block unit configured with the same orders of bits or bits at everyn bits of each plain text data configuring the bit slice expression datain the cryptographic process, and herein n is a power of 2.

(12) The information processing apparatus according to any one of (9) to(11),

in which the data processing unit generates the round key by using anoperation process and a movement process of a bit slice expression keyblock unit configured with the same orders of bits or bits at every nbits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit slice expression keyin the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of 2.

(13) An information processing system including:

a server which generates and transmits a plurality of encrypted dataitems; and

a plurality of reception terminals which receive the encrypted datatransmitted by the server,

in which the server includes a data processing unit which executes adata process according to a program defining a cryptographic processsequence, and

the data processing unit, according to the program, executes

-   -   a data conversion process of generating bit slice expression        data by performing a bit slice process with respect to a        plurality of plain text data items which are cryptographic        process targets,    -   a key conversion process of generating a bit slice expression        key by performing a bit slice process with respect to each        cryptographic key of the plain text data,    -   a key scheduling process of inputting the bit slice expression        key to generate a round key for each round of the cryptographic        process,    -   a cryptographic process in which the round key is applied with        respect to the bit slice expression data, and    -   a reverse data conversion process of generating the plurality of        encrypted data items corresponding to the plurality of plain        text data items, by performing reverse conversion of the bit        slice process with respect to the result of the cryptographic        process.

(14) The information processing system according to (13),

in which the data processing unit of the server

-   -   selectively acquires the cryptographic key corresponding to each        plain text data from a storage unit based on a device ID of each        reception terminal, or extracts the cryptographic key        corresponding to each plain text data with a predetermined        operation based on the device ID, and    -   generates the bit slice expression key by performing the bit        slice process with respect to the cryptographic key in the key        conversion process.

(15) The information processing system according to (13) or (14),

in which the data processing unit of the server executes the encryptionprocess using an operation process and a movement process of a bit sliceexpression data block unit configured with the same orders of bits orbits at every n bits of each plain text data configuring the bit sliceexpression data in the encryption process, and herein n is a power of 2.

(16) The information processing system according to any one of (13) to(15),

in which the data processing unit of the server generates the round keyby using an operation process and a movement process of a bit sliceexpression key block unit configured with the same orders of bits orbits at every n bits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit sliceexpression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of2.

In addition, the method of the process executed in the apparatus and thesystem described above or the program for executing the process is alsoincluded in the configuration of the present disclosure.

In addition, the sequence of the processes described above in thespecification can be executed by the hardware, software, or a compositeconfiguration of both. In a case of executing the process by thesoftware, the program in which the process sequence is recorded can beinstalled in the memory in the computer embedded in the dedicatedhardware to be executed, or the program can be installed in thegeneral-purpose computer which can execute various processes, to beexecuted. For example, the program can be recorded in a recordingmedium, in advance. In addition to the installation of the program fromthe recording medium in the computer, the program can be receivedthrough the network such as a local area network (LAN) or the Internet,and can be installed in the recording medium such as the built-in harddisk.

In addition, various processes described in the specification are notonly executed in time series according to the description, but may beexecuted in parallel or individually according to the process ability ofthe apparatus for executing the processes or if needed. Further, thesystem in the present specification is a logical assembly configurationof the plurality of apparatuses, and is not limited to the apparatuseshaving each configuration in the same housing.

REFERENCE SIGNS LIST

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1-20. (canceled)
 21. An information processing apparatus comprising: acircuitry configured to execute a decryption process of an encrypteddata, wherein the circuitry has a configuration of executing a dataprocess according to a program defining a decryption process sequence,and the data processing unit, according to the program, executes a dataconversion process of generating bit slice expression data by performinga bit slice process with respect to the encrypted data, a key conversionprocess of generating a bit slice expression key by performing a bitslice process with respect to each cryptographic key of the encrypteddata, and a key scheduling process of inputting the bit slice expressionkey to generate a round key for each round of the decryption process.22. The information processing apparatus according to claim 21, thecircuitry is configured to further execute a decryption process in whichthe round key is applied with respect to the bit slice expression data,and a reverse data conversion process of generating plain text datacorresponding to the encrypted data, by performing reverse conversion ofthe bit slice process with respect to the result of the decryptionprocess.
 23. The information processing apparatus according to claim 22,wherein the circuitry acquires the encrypted data and a device ID of atransmission device of the encrypted data, and the circuitry selectivelyacquires the cryptographic key corresponding to each encrypted data itemfrom a storage unit based on the device ID, or extracts thecryptographic key corresponding to each encrypted data item with apredetermined operation based on the device ID, and generates the bitslice expression key by performing the bit slice process with respect tothe cryptographic key in the key conversion process.
 24. The informationprocessing apparatus according to claim 22, wherein the circuitryexecutes the decryption process using an operation process and amovement process of a bit slice expression data block unit configuredwith same orders of bits or bits at every n bits of each encrypted dataitem configuring the bit slice expression data in the decryptionprocess, and herein n is a power of
 2. 25. The information processingapparatus according to claim 22, wherein the circuitry generates theround key by using an operation process and a movement process of a bitslice expression key block unit configured with same orders of bits orbits at every n bits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit sliceexpression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of2.
 26. An information processing system comprising: a transmissionterminal which generates and transmits encrypted data; and a serverwhich receives the encrypted data transmitted by the transmissionterminal, wherein the server includes a circuitry configured to executea data process according to a program defining a decryption processsequence, and the circuitry, according to the program, executes a dataconversion process of generating bit slice expression data by performinga bit slice process with respect to the encrypted data which is adecryption process target, a key conversion process of generating a bitslice expression key by performing a bit slice process with respect toeach cryptographic key of the encrypted data, a key scheduling processof inputting the bit slice expression key to generate a round key foreach round of the decryption process, a decryption process in which theround key is applied with respect to the bit slice expression data, anda reverse data conversion process of generating plain text datacorresponding to the encrypted data, by performing reverse conversion ofthe bit slice process with respect to the result of the decryptionprocess.
 27. The information processing system according to claim 26,wherein the transmission terminal transmits the encrypted data and adevice ID of a transmission device of the encrypted data, and thecircuitry of the server selectively acquires the cryptographic keycorresponding to each encrypted data item from a storage unit based onthe device ID, or extracts the cryptographic key corresponding to eachencrypted data item with a predetermined operation based on the deviceID, and generates the bit slice expression key by performing the bitslice process with respect to the cryptographic key in the keyconversion process.
 28. The information processing system according toclaim 26, wherein the circuitry of the server executes the decryptionprocess using an operation process and a movement process of a bit sliceexpression data block unit configured with same orders of bits or bitsat every n bits of each encrypted data item configuring the bit sliceexpression data in the decryption process, and herein n is a power of 2.29. The information processing system according to claim 26, wherein thecircuitry of the server generates the round key by using an operationprocess and a movement process of a bit slice expression key block unitconfigured with same orders of bits or bits at every n bits of eachcryptographic key configuring the bit slice expression key in the keyscheduling process, and herein n is a power of
 2. 30. An informationprocessing apparatus comprising: a circuitry configured to execute ageneration process of an encrypted data, wherein the circuitry has aconfiguration of executing a data process according to a programdefining a cryptographic process sequence, and the circuitry, accordingto the program, executes a data conversion process of generating bitslice expression data by performing a bit slice process with respect toplain text data, a key conversion process of generating a bit sliceexpression key by performing a bit slice process with respect to eachcryptographic key of the plain text data, and a key scheduling processof inputting the bit slice expression key to generate a round key foreach round of the encryption process.
 31. The information processingapparatus according to claim 30, the circuitry is configured to furtherexecute a cryptographic process in which the round key is applied withrespect to the bit slice expression data, and a reverse data conversionprocess of generating encrypted data corresponding to the plain textdata, by performing reverse conversion of the bit slice process withrespect to the result of the cryptographic process.
 32. The informationprocessing apparatus according to claim 30, wherein the circuitryexecutes the encryption process using an operation process and amovement process of a bit slice expression data block unit configuredwith same orders of bits or bits at every n bits of each plain text dataconfiguring the bit slice expression data in the cryptographic process,and herein n is a power of
 2. 33. The information processing apparatusaccording to claim 30, wherein the circuitry generates the round key byusing an operation process and a movement process of a bit sliceexpression key block unit configured with same orders of bits or bits atevery n bits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit sliceexpression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of2.
 34. An information processing system comprising: a server whichgenerates and transmits encrypted data; and a reception terminal whichreceives the encrypted data transmitted by the server, wherein theserver includes a circuitry configured to execute a data processaccording to a program defining a cryptographic process sequence, andthe circuitry, according to the program, executes a data conversionprocess of generating bit slice expression data by performing a bitslice process with respect to plain text data which is a cryptographicprocess target, a key conversion process of generating a bit sliceexpression key by performing a bit slice process with respect to eachcryptographic key of the plain text data, a key scheduling process ofinputting the bit slice expression key to generate a round key for eachround of the cryptographic process, a cryptographic process in which theround key is applied with respect to the bit slice expression data, anda reverse data conversion process of generating encrypted datacorresponding to the plain text data, by performing reverse conversionof the bit slice process with respect to the result of the cryptographicprocess.
 35. The information processing system according to claim 34,wherein the circuitry of the server selectively acquires thecryptographic key corresponding to each plain text data from a storageunit based on a device ID of each reception terminal, or extracts thecryptographic key corresponding to each plain text data with apredetermined operation based on the device ID, and generates the bitslice expression key by performing the bit slice process with respect tothe cryptographic key in the key conversion process.
 36. The informationprocessing system according to claim 34, wherein the circuitry of theserver executes the encryption process using an operation process and amovement process of a bit slice expression data block unit configuredwith same orders of bits or bits at every n bits of each plain text dataconfiguring the bit slice expression data in the encryption process, andherein n is a power of
 2. 37. The information processing systemaccording to claim 34, wherein the circuitry of the server generates theround key by using an operation process and a movement process of a bitslice expression key block unit configured with same orders of bits orbits at every n bits of each cryptographic key configuring the bit sliceexpression key in the key scheduling process, and herein n is a power of2.
 38. An information processing method which is executed in aninformation processing apparatus, the method comprising: a dataprocessing causing a data processing unit to execute a decryptionprocess of an encrypted data, wherein the data processing, according tothe program, includes a data conversion process of generating bit sliceexpression data by performing a bit slice process with respect to theencrypted data which is a decryption process target, a key conversionprocess of generating a bit slice expression key by performing a bitslice process with respect to each cryptographic key of the encrypteddata, and a key scheduling process of inputting the bit slice expressionkey to generate a round key for each round of the decryption process.39. An information processing method which is executed in an informationprocessing apparatus, the method comprising: a data processing causing adata processing unit to execute a generation process of encrypted data,wherein the data processing, according to a program defining acryptographic process sequence, includes a data conversion process ofgenerating bit slice expression data by performing a bit slice processwith respect to plain text data, a key conversion process of generatinga bit slice expression key by performing a bit slice process withrespect to each cryptographic key of the plain text data, and a keyscheduling process of inputting the bit slice expression key to generatea round key for each round of the encryption process.
 40. A computerreadable non-transitory storage medium comprising software configured tobe run by at least one computer processor for performing operationscomprising: causing a circuitry to input encrypted data generated by atransmitter with an individual cryptographic key; and causing dataprocessing to execute a data conversion process of generating bit sliceexpression data by performing a bit slice process with respect to theencrypted data which is a decryption process target, a key conversionprocess of generating a bit slice expression key by performing a bitslice process with respect to each cryptographic key of the encrypteddata, and a key scheduling process of inputting the bit slice expressionkey to generate a round key for each round of the decryption process.41. A computer readable non-transitory storage medium comprisingsoftware configured to be run by at least one computer processor forperforming operations comprising: a data processing causing a circuitryto execute a generation process of encrypted data; wherein the dataprocessing step includes a data conversion process of generating bitslice expression data by performing a bit slice process with respect toplain text data which is an encryption process target, a key conversionprocess of generating a bit slice expression key by performing a bitslice process with respect to each cryptographic key of the plain textdata, and a key scheduling process of inputting the bit slice expressionkey to generate a round key for each round of the encryption process.